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  • Thursday, March 27, 2003

     

    Holding a mirror up to war.

    There is a link that has been sent to me, and you have probably already seen it too, that shows the high cost of Operation Iraqi Freedom on the civilians in Iraq. Up until this time, I have chosen to not post the link because...well, because it's just plain brutal and sad and horrible. But then I read this today over at Andy Sullivan:

    KEEP ON HAMMERING: If the war is more protracted, that makes the home front much more important. The propaganda organs against this war will fight hard to weaken American resolve. They are Saddam's only real hope - that Americans will tire of casualties, lose confidence, and make some sort of deal with the devil. With this president, that won't happen. But heaven knows, the anti-war right and left will do all they can to derail a war they so fiercely opposed. They will use even the slightest civilian casualties, however tiny in relative terms, into an hysterical campaign to foment regional unrest and sap morale at home. We have to counter and challenge their every argument. And the White House needs to be clearer now than ever, as Safire points out this morning, that we intend to win no matter what, and that winning means unconditional surrender of the regime. We have to reiterate tirelessly that we are morally in the right; that a regime that is sending its own troops into battle at the point of a gun deserves to die; that a gangster's mob cannot and will not be allowed to terrorize a country and a region for much longer. And at some point, if Saddam's terror mob doesn't crack, we have to live with the higher numbers of civilian and military casualties that a less squeamish battle to destroy it might require. We're not at that point yet - far from it. We're actually still within reach of an amazingly casualty-free victory. But if it comes, and I deeply hope it doesn't, we must simply aim at victory. If we have to live without a perfect scenario - regime collapse, infrastructure intact, civilians spared to an historically unprecedented degree - we have to.


    Perhaps Andy would like counter and challenge the following arguments, and then he can remind us again how we are "morally in the right".

    (The following pictures are not for the squeamish. They come from shockingelk.com, if you're inclined to go to the site)

    Scenes from a liberation

    Andrew Sullivan: And at some point, if Saddam's terror mob doesn't crack, we have to live with the higher numbers of civilian and military casualties that a less squeamish battle to destroy it might require. We're not at that point yet - far from it

    George Bush is a war criminal.... and Andy Sullivan is a cowardly sanctimonius idiot.


    posted by tbogg at 12:34 PM

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