anarchy : utah phillips
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Off to Singapore for a business trip; I will be back this weekend. Here are a couple of old anti-war records, which are as much as I can say about the war in Iraq now. The Democrat victory pleases me; I would love to see a reduction of troops there together with a more decisive exit strategy as far as the government of the country is concerned – one that takes into careful consideration the differences of the domestic political forces there, and that will preserve lives and prevent Iraq from spiralling further down into the hell hole the Bush administration has dug for it. I am now especially eager to find out what happens about Iran more than anything else. As far as I know, an attack on the Islamic Republic was almost a done deal before the mid-term election. I count on the Democrat-led Congress to change that. Iran, and more importantly the Iranian people, do not deserve any form of military hostility, regardless of the government's new claim that its nuclear program will be completed by March. To be sure, Iran does seem to want to annihilate Israel – I've seen the propaganda posters all over Tehran myself having been to Iran last July – but my feeling is this intent is just that, a propaganda being perpetrated by the mullahs for whatever purpose they are trying to achieve. To preempt this empty threat by attacking it on the back of the failure in Iraq is neither morally nor politically astute.
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