"Stay the Course" Plan or Prayer?

The current debate about how to handle the situation in Iraq is indeed delicate because an entire nation is in shambles, thousands have died, and we are responsible.

But in considering this question, we should not ignore or forget:

§ We were brought into this invasion under false pretenses not just faulty intelligence, while being reassured by giddy fabrications of the expectations of a post-invasion Iraq.

§ After the immediate assault, we have experienced immense failures in execution—strategic and tactical—amidst massive corruption.

§ We have perpetrated horrific war crimes in the streets and in the prisons.

§ We have manufactured a “paid press” and managed systematic cover-ups of massive malfeasance of all kinds.

§ The level of violence and chaos continues to rise and the best research evidence suggests it is linked to our continued military presence there.

In the face of all this, the administration continues the refrain that we must “stay the course.”

This course, so far, has been a disaster for everyone. Everyone.

The old saying might apply here that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.