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I lost faith in our engagement in Iraq last week. I can pinpoint the moment.
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We should've killed him in 2003, when he first embarked upon his murder campaign. But our leaders were afraid of provoking riots.* * *
We must kill - not capture - Muqtada, then kill every gunman who comes out in the streets to avenge him.* * *
And after we've killed Muqtada and destroyed his Mahdi Army, we need to go after the Sunni insurgents. If we can't leave a democracy behind, we should at least leave the corpses of our enemies.* * *
The holier-than-thou response to this proposal is predictable: "We can't kill our way out of this situation!" Well, boo-hoo. Friendly persuasion and billions of dollars haven't done the job. Give therapeutic violence a chance.* * *
There's still a chance, if a slight one, that we can achieve a few of our goals in Iraq - if we let our troops make war, not love. But if our own leaders are unwilling to fight, it's time to leave and let Iraqis fight each other.AMEN
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