19 Mar 08 5 years of war in Iraq, what is it good for?
Today marks the fifth anniversary of the war in Iraq, as you have no doubt heard on every news station so far today. The NY Times has some good stuff up, as does WaPo and even my own paper The Orlando Sentinel.
No doubt today you will see countless time lines, hundreds of pictures and hear pundits from both sides screech about how the war is or is not working. It will be a day of endless speculation and 20-20 hindsight.
The thing to remember though is that during all of this time there have been men and women over there. Not just soldiers but workers, contractors and those in the media trying to help this war make sense to those of back here in the safety of the U.S. Don’t forget about those people when you have your debates about the Iraq War.
Through all of this, despite the war being more about money, power and politics, none of that can happen without the people on the ground.
War sucks, and this one especially. In five years, has anything really been accomplished? Proponents of the war will point to the overthrow of Saddam and the voting in Iraq, but has that really made things safer for the people living there? It seems not.
There is no perfect solution right now, and anyone pretending to propose one is a liar. No matter who wins, someone is still a big loser, about 50,000 in fact (and counting).
What now? What comes next?
War sucks.
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