Sen. Jerry Moran (R-KS) sees nothing that President Barack Obama can do to resolve the sectarian conflict currently flaring up in Iraq.
“I don’t think there’s anything President Obama can do to lead this country back to a solution of Iraq,” Moran told the Wichita Eagle on Monday. “In my view, it was a mistake to leave precipitously, but having that decision been made, then I don’t think you can put this back together again.”
Moran, who served in the House of Representatives when the U.S. invaded Iraq, told the Eagle he was convinced to send troops there after former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice dispersed his skepticism. He later opposed further troop surges, and told the Eagle that he is opposed to sending U.S. troops back to Iraq this time around.
“I think trying to go back in and correct the circumstances that it (Iraq) is now in – I just don’t see a path by which we would have success,” he told the newspaper. “And I actually hate reaching that conclusion, because there are so many people who have sacrificed lives in regard to trying to make Iraq a better place and freedom and liberty in that part of the world that it will be more difficult to find the success in their sacrifice.”
Howzabout actually learning from your mistake perhaps Rep Moran?
You know. No more war?
Not holding out hope though.
jw1
notice how he still thinks leaving troops in iraq would have made the country safer,which is total bull.
“In my view, it was a mistake to leave precipitously…”
We either a) leave precipitously (is there any other way?) or b) make room on the flag for the 51st star.
Hussein was a brutal despot. We cannot provide the brutal despotism to fill the vacuum he left.
Moran - never a more fitting surname.
Did this Moran actually serve on the battlefield?
I don’t recall the U.S. debating about whether we should go into Iraq to make it a bastion of democracy. I do remember debating whether we should go into Iraq to stop Saddam Hussein from blowing us up with nuclear weapons (that he didn’t have). Every life lost in the Iraq War on all sides was a colossal and tragic waste.