Comments on: The Iraq War & The Banshee’s Wail http://themoderatevoice.com/14673/the-iraq-war-the-banshees-wail/ An Internet hub for moderates, centrists, and independents, with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, and right Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:24:50 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Entropy http://themoderatevoice.com/14673/the-iraq-war-the-banshees-wail/comment-page-1/#comment-95840 Entropy Tue, 21 Aug 2007 22:18:35 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/war/iraq/14673/the-iraq-war-the-banshees-wail/#comment-95840 Sam, Were I in charge now, rather than abandon Iraq completely, I would work toward a soft-partition similar to another artificial country carved by imperialist powers out of Ottoman cloth - Yugoslavia. Sam,

Were I in charge now, rather than abandon Iraq completely, I would work toward a soft-partition similar to another artificial country carved by imperialist powers out of Ottoman cloth – Yugoslavia.

]]> By: Sam http://themoderatevoice.com/14673/the-iraq-war-the-banshees-wail/comment-page-1/#comment-95834 Sam Tue, 21 Aug 2007 21:32:26 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/war/iraq/14673/the-iraq-war-the-banshees-wail/#comment-95834 Yea, Entropy is right. I'll take it a step further and say this entire thing will only resolve itself after we leave and a victor emerges from the ensuing bloodshed. Nothing is going to stop them if they haven't been stopped these last 4 years. They won't even take a break to allow water and electricity infrastructure to be built. Yea, Entropy is right. I’ll take it a step further and say this entire thing will only resolve itself after we leave and a victor emerges from the ensuing bloodshed. Nothing is going to stop them if they haven’t been stopped these last 4 years. They won’t even take a break to allow water and electricity infrastructure to be built.

]]> By: Entropy http://themoderatevoice.com/14673/the-iraq-war-the-banshees-wail/comment-page-1/#comment-95751 Entropy Tue, 21 Aug 2007 14:11:39 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/war/iraq/14673/the-iraq-war-the-banshees-wail/#comment-95751 <blockquote>How many times have I written that there cannot be a military solution without a political solution?</blockquote> To which I would answer, how can there be a "political" solution without a cultural solution? Getting consensus among "political" parties is relatively easy until one realizes that such parties in Iraq represent only homogeneous cultural interests. The surge was designed to enforce a pause in the conflict that would allow these political-cultural factions to agree on some basic issues. It's apparent the cultural forces at work and deep seated sectarian animosities are too strong. Unlike Afghanistan, the factions in Iraq are all-to-willing to fight and they are not about to let us get in their way.

How many times have I written that there cannot be a military solution without a political solution?

To which I would answer, how can there be a “political” solution without a cultural solution? Getting consensus among “political” parties is relatively easy until one realizes that such parties in Iraq represent only homogeneous cultural interests. The surge was designed to enforce a pause in the conflict that would allow these political-cultural factions to agree on some basic issues. It’s apparent the cultural forces at work and deep seated sectarian animosities are too strong. Unlike Afghanistan, the factions in Iraq are all-to-willing to fight and they are not about to let us get in their way.

]]>