At least one person in DC gets it. From yesterday's White House briefing:
THOMAS: Yesterday, according to The New York Times, we dropped a bomb on a home in Sadr City and burned alive a pregnant woman and her children. How long is the siege of Sadr--how long are we going to keep bombing Iraqis?
PERINO: Well, I'm not aware of that particular report. I have not--I've not seen it.THOMAS: Well, it was pretty buried in the story.
PERINO: Okay. Well, the operation against the militias in Sadr City will continue until they root them out. And that is expressly in order to protect people like you just mentioned.
THOMAS: Root who out, Iraqis, in their own country?
Its such a basic point, and yet virtually no one seems to recognize it. They live there. We do not. They will always live there. So long as we stay, we will always at best be guests and at worst occupiers.
The Iraqis are fighting a civil war. This is not our fight. There is no reason for us to stay. Al Qaeda in Iraq did not exist before we arrived, and it will not exist once we leave. The Iraqis hate AQI even more than they hate us. It is their country, and they want to control it. They won't allow AQI to control Iraq any more than they will allow us to control Iraq. If the combined might of the US armed forces cannot even subdue Iraq, what on earth makes you think a few thousand foreign fighters can?
It is their country. They live there. We do not. Iraq belongs to the Iraqis. Let them have their country back. We should never have gone there in the first place, and we should not be there now. Bring them home.
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