Sometimes I have only questions, and few answers. I feel that way about Iraq. I have not heard any really good proposals for what to do now in Iraq. Maybe it is because I start with the belief that we caused this problem by our war-mongering. I find it hard to think it is responsible or sufficient to walk away and leave this mess we created behind us. I would appreciate some thoughtful ideas, based on the following premises (they may not be your premises, humour me and help me think of solutions based on mine):
1. We started this war and we were wrong to do so.
2. Life for Iraqis is worse than it was before we started, hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have died, and the infra structure is in shambles.
3. We don’t want more American soldiers to die.
Based on those propositions, what is a responsible solution here? Can we just walk away and leave the mess behind? Do we throw a lot of money at them to fix the problem themselves? Does that appease our conscience? Do we help them partition into three separate countries: one for Kurds, one for Sunis, one for Shiites? What if we try a ‘political solution’ but we can’t get Syria, etc., to take this problem off our hands?
What can we do now that Humpty Dumpty has fallen?
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