Hard to believe a year has passed since the previous round of talk about a “new way forward”, and how the Iraq Study Group was going to convince President Bush to end what it called a “grave and deteriorating” situation.
It was a year ago that we were told, again, that within the coming 6-12 months, the Iraqis would be able to take over security for their own country, it’s politicians would make progress that would end the sectarian violence, and families in the US could expect to see their loved ones return soon.
A year later, it’s easy to realize that not a whole lot has changed despite the promises that things would. We’ve got more troops in Iraq than we did last year, their military still isn’t able to “Stand up so we can stand down” (The motto of two years ago.), it’s politicians have made zero progress in 12 months, hundreds of billions of dollars have been charged to the next generations credit card, and nearly 1,000 more members of the U.S. military have been killed.
I live in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Milwaukee, WI with my wife Jen, our daughter Emerson, and son Carter.
Way off topic but: MU 81, UW 76.