Dear President Bush,
I listened to your speech today and heard you praise the many “successes” the United States has had in Iraq. Just to make sure we’re talking about the same war, I have a few questions:
Is this what you’re calling success?
Is this what you’re calling an economic necessity?
And what about the unspoken costs of the war? Overseas and at home?
Is this why we continue to invest in Iraq?
Is this why the U.S. is better than Saddam?
Is this why you criticized Saddam for attacking Iraq’s neighbors?
Is this why we need to stay the course?
Or maybe this is why we need to stay the course?
Are these the “voices in Washington” whose desire to change the course in Iraq you consider defeatist?
And what about Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen, and the rest of the world this war on terror continues to alienate against U.S. interests?
The U.S. might be bigger, it might be stronger, it might have more military strength than the rest of the world combined, but that does not mean America is winning. Beating your chest and praising the might of the U.S. military, you sounded so confident, yet the numbers, stories, and “successes” don’t seem to add up. What am I missing, Mr. President? It seems the more successes you praise, the more failures I find.
Might it be time to change our approach, change our rhetoric, change our black ops strategy, change our aid giving, change the way we “fight” for peace, stability, and democracy in the twenty first century?
I think so.
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