- Hide quoted text -
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 7:32 AM
Subject: re: Six Years In, U.S. Troops Glimpse a Path Out of Iraq
To: letters@nytimes.com
To the Editor:
From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 7:32 AM
Subject: re: Six Years In, U.S. Troops Glimpse a Path Out of Iraq
To: letters@nytimes.com
To the Editor:
As mr. Myers observes, the Iraqi security forces require "basic intelligence [that] only the Americans can provide". Empowering sectarian militias while controlling the intelligence centrally, we have put ourselves into a position which we can never leave. If we were to leave, there would be bloody civil war. Those of us who remember Vietnam cannot be satisfied to see American troops renamed "advisers"; surely Al Qaeda won't be fooled and will cite their presence as an ongoing provocation to jihad.
Barry Levine
No comments:
Post a Comment