By Santa Monica
There is a withdrawal date mandated by the U.S. Constitution — Jan. 20, 2009, at noon — the president and the vice president might withdraw from American politics, at least for a season. You can expect they are going out winners. Yet, what have we won? About 1,000 American military dead a year, for six years. Thousands more of Iraqi civilians dead.
Before this administration, many nations looked up to this nation for morality and leadership. Now, most nations look down on our State Department and our military for our failure to win Israel’s war with her hostile neighbors. There is a reason for this hostility, but we are trying to fix the hostile nations instead of trying to fix the reason. John Legreid
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on April 27, 2007. Read the original PDF.