Fear of Clowns

From Lugar's opening statement today during Petreus and Crocker's testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committe, expressing a thought I tried to articulate a few posts down,

One can debate, as many will do this week, whether progress in Iraq has been sufficient to justify continuing American sacrifices. But the greatest risk for U.S. policy is not that we are incapable of making progress, but that this progress may be largely beside the point given the divisions that now afflict Iraqi society. The risk is that our efforts are comparable to a farmer expending his resources and efforts to plant a crop on a flood plain without factoring in the probability that the waters may rise. In my judgment, some type of success in Iraq is possible, but as policy makers, we should acknowledge that we are facing extraordinarily narrow margins for achieving our goals.

Labels: iraq, richard lugar, war

// posted by Erik @ 9/11/2007 07:38:00 PM
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