Our
View: New tactics needed in Iraq
Everyday
we hear about a new one. A new death or
bombing, half a world away but central to
the atmosphere in the United States. The
war in Iraq has become a burden to the mind
of Americans, the stories of a new soldier’s
death everyday starts to make us wonder
what’s really going on in the military
and the Middle East.
The
recent deaths over the weekend have put
a particularly gory face on the conflict
overseas. If the continuing deaths since
March have seemed flat and far away, more
and more the bombings and notices of new
casualties perplex
the constituents, why haven’t the
tactics changed? Why are there still two
soldiers, in Army Jeeps, cruising the streets
of Iraq without more protection?
It
seems peculiar that the military wouldn’t
have made some changes to their whole master
plan. These are people’s lives, and
yet they’re sending these obviously
ill prepared soldiers into the lion’s
den without proper instruction.
There
needs to be some sort of new plan, bigger
Jeeps, tanks, shatterproof windows, bigger
scouting groups, just do something to protect
these people.
Admittedly,
it is hard to picture exactly what is going
on over there. Seventeen soldiers have committed
suicide. First the witnesses say that this
weekend the soldiers were dragged out and
brutally murdered, and then the government
comes out and says ‘no, they were
just looted.’ Is that a cover up we
smell? Is the real truth about the war just
a little too much for Bush’s public
relations campaign? How’s he going
to get reelected if there are people dying
in this little war of his? Is Iraq a democracy
yet?
The
more we hear, the more we fear that this
mess is only going to lead in a more chaotic
and more deadly direction. We are tired
of soldiers dying in a place where no one
wants them. We are tired of hearing their
families cry.
Bring
them home, now.
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