 Last week Sen. Joe Biden (D-De) wrote an op-ed in the New York Times with a viable soloution to the Iraq debacle. Sen. Biden suggested that the soloution may be to split Iraq into 3 autonomous religious, social and economic regions with a central government in Bahgdad. This is a plan the Bush administration refuses to consider because of its implications for the vast oil reserves that lie beneath Iraq. The war in Iraq has deteriorated into a bloody civil war between the three dominant groups in Iraq, the Shiites, the Kurds and the Sunni. Senator Biden writes "A decade ago, Bosnia was torn apart by ethnic cleansing and facing its demise as a single country. After much hesitation, the United States stepped in decisively with the Dayton Accords,which kept the country whole by, paradoxically, dividing it into ethnic federations, even allowing Muslims, Croats and Serbs to retain separate armies. With the help of American and other forces, Bosnians have lived a decade in relative peace and are now slowly strengthening their common central government, including disbanding those separate armies last year."*
The Republicans continue to offer us false choices, either we stay the course or we cut and run. They only see things in black or white, there is no other way. They continually go on TV and blast the Democratic Party as having no ideas insinuating that the liberals in the Democratic Party do not care about our security and are soft on terrorism. Nothing could be further from the truth, and when a Democrat puts forth a well thought, logical proposal to solve a complex matter they barely pay it lip service. It is unfortunate that the current administration has ulterior motives in Iraq. I don't believe that they really want to solve the problem of Iraq. George W. Bush and his Neo-Con advisors want Iraq set up the way they want it set up, with a puppet government that they control, because the truth of the matter is as it has always been, "it's the oil stupid". *Excerpt reprinted from the New York Times please read the entire editorial. |
