Congressman John Murtha is at it again.
Murtha added: “The rhetoric is so frustrating — when they keep making statements which are very optimistic, and then it turns out to be the opposite. … And the public has caught on to that, and they’re very pessimistic about the outcome.”
The public is pessimistic because of people like you, Mr. Murtha. The cut and run crowd. Iraq needs optimism, infrastructure and investment. It needs civility and friends. Leaving now would be the same thing as kicking most decent Iraqis in the face. We would be consigning them to being ruled by strongmen without consciences again.
Go ahead, keep calling for policies of cut and run. Let future generations deal with problems in the Middle East. That would be the easy way out. Keep teaching Americans to give up when the going gets tough. I’ll just get my bags packed up and tell all the Iraqis I work with that we’re abandoning them. Not. Finish the job.
Maybe we’re doing some things wrong. If you want to criticize, address how we could do better. Running away isn’t a solution, it’s a time delaying tactic that won’t work.