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DON’T GET TOO OVERLY EXCITED–U.S. HAS ONLY BOUGHT ITSELF TIME IN THIS TWO-FRONT WAR.

By Schuyler Thorpe
Author and Political Activist

It comes as no surprise that the security operation in Baghdad has lessened some of the impact and horrors of the raging 4-year-old Sunni-led insurgency.

But before any of you war supporters start popping those champagne corks, you might want to just hold off the celebrating permanently: All this has done is bought the US-led coalition forces some time and breathing room.

The insurgency has gone to ground and laid low for the time being, calculating new attacks and new approaches to the security operation–and probing the whole thing for weaknesses. But it doesn’t mean that the insurgency has been defeated by any means.

Even the capture of Al-Qaeda of Iraq’s leader (supposedly captured–no one has actually confirmed this publicly), hasn’t lessened the daily car bombings, the violence, and the killing of Iraq’s vulnerable citizens.

Make no mistake about it: This insurgency hasn’t been crushed. And it won’t be militarily–no matter how many troops Bush sends into Iraq.

And we won’t even be able to hold onto the said areas once things are in place. Because–like before–the insurgency will rise and strike either at will or elsewhere in Iraq; thus drawing away much needed security from other cities and even the capital itself.

While Bush and his cronies are crowing about this latest “success”–they are still dangerously short-sighted in the long term: We still won’t win this war by force or playing it up as a victory in the war against terror.

What will win this war is one thing which Bush doesn’t have or won’t embrace willingly: Diplomacy.

And while he thinks that the talks with Iran this month was still a win for the US, it proved that we have lost a lot of ground with the international community as a whole.

Instead of, “Sure, we’ll sign on board,” Iran has simply offered, “We’ll think about it and let you know the results.”

That in itself is a slap in the face for our long-standing foreign policy initiatives.

And it will be awhile before the nations of the world begin to trust the United States openly again.

A long time indeed…

Schuyler Thorpe is an author, a political activist, and a frequent letter writer to The Everett Herald of Snohomish County. He can be reached at: starchildalpha1@yahoo.com

Labels: Al-Qaeda of Iraq, Bush, civil war, insurgency, Iran, Iraq, time, United States

posted by Schuyler Thorpe @ 4:47 PM