Where were you when I needed you?

By Libby

Oh Sully. I can't help but think, if only you and all the others that followed had boarded the outrage express earlier...

Ah, yes, the Republican party. The real prize, the real issue. It's worth reiterating: The main reason to withdraw and redeploy now is because no sane observer believes that continuing to ineffectively occupy a Muslim country against the will of the Iraqi and American people is in the national interest. The surge will end next March, regardless. Whatever slivers of success it has achieved cannot work against the overwhelming fact of Iraq's sectarian disintegration. The "country" cannot be put together again under unending U.S. occupation. And sending more young Americans to die for a sectarian war that is actually increasing the risk to the U.S. and the West as a whole is immoral and strategically foolhardy.

But it could give the neocons a new leash on life, a way to invigorate their exhausted ideological engines. That, now, is what young Americans are dying for. Increasingly, it's all they're dying for. Enough.

Sadly, the truth is, that's all they've ever been dying for, from the very beginning.

I don't blame you and I appreciate the help now in getting back on track, but I surely wish you all had boarded the train when we still could have stopped the derailment.