Recent news coming out of Iraq indicate that US Marines killed a bunch of a civilians in a style reminiscent of the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam. This comes as no surprise to me.
Haditha is merely a symptom of what all Army and Marine Corps personnel are experiencing over there--frustration. And I am not going to be critical of this decision to kill these people because those Marines understand there are only two solutions to the problems over there. Genocide is one. Total withdrawal is the other.
The future of Iraq is clear. It is a divided country, and new borders will be drawn to reflect this reality. It was true in Yugoslavia. It is true in Iraq. The only way to avoid this outcome is kill a lot of people and commit atrocities on the scale of Saddam Hussein, the only man who seemed able to keep that place in one piece.
It violates conscience and the values of this country to commit Haditha on the large scale. The best thing the US can do is broker a peace agreement among the various factions and allow them to go their separate ways. Then, we should leave. A unified Iraq makes no sense, yet our insistence on it is what is killing us over there.
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