The quagmire is in the liberal mind
From the always-lucid Melanie Phillips:
That, of course, is precisely why the violence is being ratcheted up -- because the stakes for the corrupt merchants of death are so enormous. For them, it is imperative that Iraq does not become a free and stable society, because their hold not only over Iraqis but over the rest of the Arab world will be undermined.
Unlike the appeaseniks, who appear so disgustingly to exult every time Iraqis are murdered because this enables them to crow about 'quagmires', I think that every bomb that goes off shows how desperately important this struggle is and how vital it was that it was waged in the first place. And I also think how utterly heroic are the Iraqi people; how, unlike those in the west who would rather have had the 'stability' of Saddam's terrorist-sponsoring police state, the Iraqis are determined to achieve freedom from tyranny and are prepared to fight for it, no matter what cost they have to pay in their own blood.
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