Ali, I Wouldn't Be Too Concerned either.....

Ali, at "Iraq the Model" blog is concerned about the recent conservative columnist Robert Novak's piece predicting a US pull-out of Iraq in 2005 in the event of a Bush victory in November. Ali's heartfelt piece can be read here. Ali outlines the stakes:

The task of liberating Iraq and establishing democracy in it is nothing like any limited war America had fought before. It's as serious as WW1 and WW2, and even more serious than the cold war. Anyone who thinks that America can pull out and be settled with toppling Saddam and stopping his WMDs project proves to be shortsighted, the least to say.

Take comfort Ali.....Bush, unlike Clinton has not predicated his foreign and domestic policy agenda on populism but on pragmatic long-term solutions to problems facing American's today, these being the security and prosperity of the US. If Bush is a populist, you would have seen a much different first term and no intervention in Iraq.

But, I do not think that Mr. Novak is off base here. This discussion has to take place and our people have to come to their conclusions that the investment in Iraq is worth it. The center of the American political spectrum has to digest the issues at hand. Novak's musings may be meant as a trial balloon to take the temperature of these people since we are 6 weeks away from a very important election.

Ali, if you want for us to believe in you, you must also believe in us! So take comfort that many of us here are pulling for you and and as Winston Churchill once said:

"The Americans will always do the right thing... After they've exhausted all the alternatives."