Durl Kruse on the Fifth Year in Iraq
March 16, 2007
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On this anniversary date we must face the reality of
what we have done these past four years. We have a civic
responsibility to ask ourselves? How much more? How much
longer? How much safer is the world? How much longer can
we continue with the same policy in the war on
terrorism?
I proclaim: Not One More Year.
Now is a time for serious reflection. Ask yourself:
Are you willing to have our nation continue to sacrifice
the lives of five thousand, eight thousand, or more of
our servicemen and women in Iraq? Are you willing to see
the number of injured climb to sixty thousand, eighty
thousand or more? Are you comfortable accepting the
increasing deaths and causalities of Iraqi people as
they climb to 600,000, 800,000 or a million? Are you
willing to jeopardize the future solvency of our
national treasury to the tune of $500 billion, $1
trillion dollars? How much more of any aspect of this
occupation are you willing to support as you witness the
results of the past four years?
I proclaim, Not One More Year!
Is this an endless war our country has embarked upon?
Does this approach make sense to anyone anymore? Are we
blind to the effect we are having in the world?
As the coalition of the willing disintegrates and the
U.S. finds itself standing alone in the world, is it not
clearly time for a new approach to engaging in the
world?
Nation building, military intervention, and
unilateralism have failed to achieve our national
interests and to make the world safer.
Imagine for a moment if four years ago we had taken a
different course, a course of coalition building,
working closely and in harmony with all our allies,
talking to instead of threatening our perceived enemies,
embracing rather than rejecting international law and
treaties, respecting and advancing the diplomacy of the
United Nations, and finally building upon the goodwill
of the world after 9/11 by remaining focused on the real
terrorist threat to the world? Al Queada and Osama Bin
Laden.
Can we begin down a new path? What better way than for
each person on Monday, March 19, 2007 to call or write
to his or her representative or senator demanding an end
to the U.S. occupation of Iraq.
On this fourth anniversary, I proclaim: Bring the Troops
Home Now- Let This Be the Last Year of the Occupation of
Iraq.
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