| A half-million dead in Darfur; 2.5 million refugees – not counting the corpses lost in the sands or terrified survivors in hiding. Surely, the world will act?
No. The world talks. |
| The Iraq Study Group report . . . is not a “fruit salad”, Mr Baker insists. It is a grand strategy. To my mind, the sort of grand strategy the British Foreign Office came up with in the late 1930s: keep negotiating . . . . |
“To my mind, the sort of grand strategy the British Foreign Office came up with in the late 1930s: keep negotiating . . . ”
If the armed forces occupying Iraq could crush their opponents, as the world could have the nation of Nazi Germany, they would. The difficulty of neutralizing a guerilla group with such a strong ideology has got to be unimaginable. Such a simplistic attitude, belies the reality of the situation. What options does the U.S. have?
Benji, I can’t speak for David Warren, but it appears to me that with his “simplistic attitude” he has something in mind other than the terrorists (or insurgents or guerillas) in Iraq.
I go by this part of his piece, which appears just before the above quote: “starting unconditional negotiations with Syria and Iran.”
Could it be Mr. Warren has in mind crushing the patrons of the terrorists in Iraq?