The Ultimate U.S. Occupation Failure: III

No, it is not Japan or Germany we should look to. It is the American South. Stay—perhaps for decades--and maintain semi-chaos, or leave and let the chips fall where they may. The fact is we can never leave Iraq without admitting it was a war based on deception, that it was a humiliation to this country, that it was a waste of tens of thousands of innocent lives, that we are aware that blood will flow and that the violence must take its course. There will be no miracle cure, no quick fix, and if the Democratic Party allows itself to get nickeled and dimed to death in some queasy compromise with these facts, the ultimate result will be the demise of the opposition party and political chaos here in the “homeland.” The only way to make Baghdad look like Tokyo or Bonn is to have Godzilla rise out of the Tigris river and force the Iraqis to look to us for protection—and then drown the place in dollars for about fifty years.