Topic: Iraq War
I am tired of hearing all of the political Pundits during interviews keep claiming, “The Democrats have won control of congress, but they do not have an answer of how to win in Iraq!”
I heard David Gergen make a very similar statement last night (Dec. 14 2006) on CNN. Mr. Gergen and all of the other Super Intelligent Political Pundits seem to imply that because the Democrats do not have a ready answer for this problem which they inherited from the Republicans, the Democrats are dense, because if they did not have the answer they should have stayed out of the situation and just let the Bush Administration and the Republicans take care of it in their own good time.
I would like to pose a question to David Gergen, Bill Schneider, Jeff Greenfield, and all of the other experts and ask, “What is the very simple solution of how to win in Iraq that you know of, that the democrats do not?” I doubt that Mr. Gergen or any of the others will have a ready answer, because there is no ready answer, as a matter of fact there is no difficult answer either. The problem is that we attacked Iraq without having any plan at all.
We invaded Iraq without any solutions planned in advance, other than the idea that every other times the United States got involved in a world situation everything worked out so well. It seems that the Bush Administration failed to comprehend that there were in fact many plans that were made in advance of the commencement of these events, and they were upgraded as the needs became evident. It appears to me that the Bush administration just thought everything would go all right because it always does, and had no comprehension that carefully though out plans had been made in advance of these other events.
I would like to propose a similar but hypothetical problem to all of these political pundits and see what their answers are. You are a Skydiver and you have made your exit from the aircraft, and things are not going quite as well as you had expected. You did not jump quite as far out from the plane as you had hoped, the wind is blowing in the wrong direction so you will not hit your target area, and you are falling faster than you had anticipated. By the way, due to your lack of preparation you forgot to put on your parachute before you jumped, what is your very simple solution to correct this perplexing problem, David?
