Isn’t it obvious that this is the only way it’s going to end? Like it or not, at some point we are going to go home, and the Iraqis are going to take control of their own country. That doesn’t mean it will end well. It is more likely — thanks to our blundering efforts to turn the course of their history — that it will end badly. No matter what, though, the future of Iraq has less to do with us than them. Just as was the case with Vietnam, and Cuba, and every other place we’ve meddled in since the end of World War II.
If our brilliant leadership had half as much brains as it has arrogance, it would know this.
Iran’s supreme leader urges U.S.-led foreign troops to leave Iraq
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Tuesday urged U.S.-led foreign troops to leave Iraq as the first step toward restoring security in the violence-torn country, state television reported.
In his meeting with visiting Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, Khamenei said that continued insecurity in Iraq would harm all regional states.
The first step in solving Iraq’s security issue would be for the occupiers to leave the country and then let the Iraqi government that has the support of the people to tackle the problems, the Iranian leader said.
“The main reason for the current situation in Iraq is America’s policies,” Khamenei was quoted as telling Talabani, who is visiting Iran to seek aid from his massive Shiite neighbor in stemming bloodshed that has been wracking his war-torn country.
Khamenei also pledged that Iran would do its best to help Iraq to establish stability and security.
In a meeting with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday evening, Talabani called for Iran’s “comprehensive” help to stem escalating violence in war-torn Iraq.
Ahmadinejad pledged to support Talabani’s request, saying “we will help our Iraqi brothers with all we can to implement and reinforce security in Iraq.”
Talabani arrived in Tehran on Monday for his second trip to Iran as the Iraqi president. In November 2005, Talabani held a historic meeting with Ahmadinejad as the first Iraqi president to visit Iran in 40 years.
Source: Xinhua