War Without End
Posted on | June 9, 2007
Erin Flanagan, whose brother was killed in action last year in Iraq, posed a relatively straightforward question to the GOP presidential candidates at this week’s debate:
As a member of an American family who has suffered so greatly at the choices made by the current administration, I desperately would like to know what you as commander in chief would do, both in the halls of the American government, to bring the parties together, as well as on the desert sands of the Middle East to bring this conflict to a point in which we can safely bring our troops home.
“How will you end the war?” she asked. She didn’t get an answer. What we heard instead were justifications and mindless optimism:
John McCain: I believe we have a fine general. I believe we have a strategy which can succeed.
Rudy Giuliani: [Going to war was] absolutely the right thing to do. … I believe that what we’re doing in Iraq, if we can get it right, is going to help reduce the risk for this country.
Mitt Romney: And at this stage, the right thing for us to do is to see if we could possibly stabilize the central government in Iraq. … Not to do that adds an enormous potential risk that the whole region could be embroiled in a regional conflict.
Duncan Hunter: So what I would do, and what we need to do right now, and we are doing, is standing up the Iraqi army.
These clowns aren’t going to end it, either. This war is meant to be fought, not to be won, and our sons and daughters are the fuel on which it runs. Sign ‘em up today!
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