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Originally posted by Jeff Higgins
What grieves me the most about Lt. Daily's death, and so many like him, is what is becoming painfully obvious in Iraq. That is that the Iraqi people do not deserve men such as Lt. Daily. I hate to say this about anyone, but they deserve the very tyranny from which Lt. Daily was attempting to liberate them.
I'm sure men like Lt. Daily would go whether or not they felt a people "deserved" their help. They would go because the leadership of our country asked them to, with no further justification required. They trust our leadership to make good decisions, and not to squander what they have to offer. I applaud that trait in men like him.
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What grieves me about Lt. Daily's death is that it was unnecessary and pointless AND that no one is accountable for it.
You say the Iraqi people do not deserve men such as Lt.Daily. I agree with you there.
But the folly of attempting to impose a Jeffersonian democracy in Iraq was entirely forseeable. It was entirely forseeable that toppling Hussein would only create a power vaccum that would be filled by Iran and eventually result in an even more totalitarian theocracy. THIS was entire forseeable - and yet your criminal administration still chose to mislead your nation into this quagmire with appeals about Saddam's tyranny. And these appeals were found compelling by Lt. Daily and others.
It is this mendacity that I think is inexcuseable, and in this context Lt. Daily's death is tragic.
If there is any lesson in this it must be that people like Lt. Daily should not trust their administration to make good decisions for them. They should instead look critically at their administration and make some informed choices about whether that administration is wise and has the nation's best interests at heart - or whether it is incompetent or corrupt or both - as this one clearly is.