The shooting has to stop.
Will the violence really stop? Now the Iraqi people have voted in a an election so contrived by the United States and we wait for the result will the shooting stop, will the suicide bombers stop, the hostage taking, the beheading of foreign nationals. Now come on what do you think. One side has to win, no matter how Democratic the result might be one side will always assume that it has had a raw deal and will seek vengeance against the imperialist armies massed inside its country. So the fighting will never stop. The longer this war goes on the more it is like Vietnam only this time there will be no saving of face my the American government. This time there has been so much negative feeling before the war started and such a further proving that the so called reasons for going to war were false in the first place that when the pull out comes, not because of any predetermined timetable but because after a number of years the body count has lead to the US people demanding a withdrawal of their troops, the American government will have no where to hide. Although I suspect the perpetrators of the war in Iraqi will be long gone it will be their successors who have to pick up the pieces left for them.To use an analogy look at the situation in Northern Ireland, after over 30 years the British Army is still based in the province, despite there having been democratic elections, the signing of a peace process and the awarding of Nobel Peace prizes, the army are still there and, I guess, according to some factions, the war still goes on. The same I think will happen in Iraq. But what of those who have tried to make sure that there is true peace in Iraq, those who work of the aid agencies, those who are looking not so much at profit but human concern, those that have given their lives to help the people that the US and UK displaced whit the war, they shall not grow old like we that are left go old, age will not weary them nor the years condem, at the going down of the sun and in the morning, I am sure, that no one will remember them.
<< Home