“So into the graveyard of Iraq, George Bush, commander-in-chief, is to send another 21,000 of his soldiers. The march of folly is to continue...” - Robert Fisk (The Independent: Bush's new strategy – The march of folly)
Bush changed course finally, and the new course is the delusion that (like in Vietnam) one more push, one more surge, will get the job done, because “Failure in Iraq would be a disaster for the United States”. A disaster certainly it will be, and Bush is delivering close to 22,000 more targets to shoot at.
Up to now, most of the insurgency was Sunni. Now Bush wants to take on one of the most powerful Shia forces, Moqtada al-Sadr's Medhi Army, turning a majority of Shia Muslims into enemies of the American occupation. It may indeed lessen sectarian violence as Sunni and Shia will become more united in their opposition to the American occupation. More American forces will be embedded with Iraqi units, thereby ensuring that those Iraqi units will become prime targets of the Sunni insurgents and the Shia militia.
Bush believes “the Author of Liberty” will guide him. (The Wall Street Journal: Bush's Address to the Nation). How can that be? The Iraqi people want to have the liberty to live a life in peace, free from the American occupiers and their Quisling al-Maliki's.
The U.S. could leave now so that no more American soldiers will be sacrificed because Bush is incapable of recognizing that he is wrong. But no, Bush is sending 21,000 more of his own into the graveyard. Hundreds of thousands more Iraqi civilians will die. Standing on the scaffold with the noose around his neck, Saddam Hussein, the Martyr of Babylon, told the truth: Iraq has become hell.
There is no “magic formula for (American) success in Iraq”, no “best shot at victory”. Only death will await the 21,000 American storm troopers.
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