No one would argue today that mistakes have not been made in the war in Iraq. I certainly would not. I have said so before in this blog here. But is that all there is to talk about? Certainly the Mainstream Media only portrays one side of the war so we all clearly know the bad side.
But is there another side to the war? A friend of mine, Foster Friess, who founded and runs Brandywine Funds, a really great mutual fund company, recently returned from a trip to Iraq. He met with many Iraqi officials and talked with many of the regular people in the streets while there. I greatly enjoyed his report of his trip.
Of note is how peaceful it is now to live in the Northern Kurdish section of Iraq. Saddam persecuted this area constantly. He killed hundreds of thousands there. Needless to say, they are absolutely thrilled with their liberation and love America and George Bush for what we did for them. But we never hear this in the media. I thought you would enjoy reading his report.
Why is it that we are not proud of what we did for this people? We allow Islamic terrorists, intent on blowing up their own people, to drive the news reports we get everyday and cause us to be tempted to believe that nothing good was gained and all is lost. This is foolishness. Don't we realize that much of what the terrorists are doing are specifically designed to influence Media coverage and Congressmen? Our media gladly goes along with this giving them all the more reason to blow more people up. It is a vicious cycle and our media is very much a part of it. Congress is guilty as well.
Congressmen calling for our immediate withdrawal never offer a plan regarding how to prevent massacres if we actually did what they call for. They also don't address the loss of face in the Middle East if we SURRENDER. They only thing that the Islamists respect is strength. We have only surrendered once before. We should never do it again. We have done a lot of good there. Not the least of which is we have created a magnet for the crazies to come and fight us there, not in NY or Chicago or LA etc. That seems to me to be a really good unexpected outcome.
Foster also introduces a wonderful Video regarding the history and present danger we face with the radical Islamic groups that are sworn enemies of ours. Watch the preview of this here. Clearly, no reasonable person believes that these people are just going to open up deli's if we leave Iraq without helping them to stabilize. It is awful that we have to have a war but we need to remind ourselves that we did not start this war. We finally responded to the many attacks over the past 15 years. We cannot stand idly by. To do so would be tragic.
