Iraq in Chaos

The question is do we leave now with Iraq in chaos or do we leave later with Iraq in chaos. I hope the Congress chooses the former course to save more lives and treasure.

I agree. It is interesting to me how the neo-cons are imagining that all kinds of bad things will happen if Americans leave now. They certainly had no similar imagination as to consequences for entering in the first place. I think we should simpily leave and let the internal dynamics of the country work itself out. One of these days we will learn once and for all the folly trying to, in the words of Kipling, hustle the east.

Now it is not good for the Christian's health
to hustle the area in brown
for the Christian riles and the Aryan smiles
and it weareth the Christian down

And the end of the fight
is a tombstone white
with the name of the late deceased –
and the epitaph drear:
"A fool lies here
who tried to hustle the East!"