Messiah: Don't let genocide stop us
The prospect of it, he says, isn’t a good enough reason to keep us in Iraq:
“Well, look, if that’s the criteria by which we are making decisions on the deployment of U.S. forces, then by that argument you would have 300,000 troops in the Congo right now — where millions have been slaughtered as a consequence of ethnic strife — which we haven’t done,” Obama said in an interview with The Associated Press.
Except, of course, that we didn’t invade the Congo and topple its government, which means our moral obligations there aren’t the same as they are in Iraq.
The Iraqi ambassador to the U.S. makes the salient points:
To have created a mess and to turn around and walk way from it, apart from the fact that it is immoral in my view, it is not without a price. The price will be a destabilized Middle East, rampant international terrorism, which is bound to visit you here at home sooner or later. So, some clear thinking has to be made about the price.