The reviews of Michael Moore’s new film are beginning to trickle out, and I’m looking forward to the forthcoming British release (rubbish site that hasn’t been updated for a couple of months – great if you’re a film distributor!).
In the meantime, the Americans are still saying that they’re going to hand power back to Iraq at the end of next month. This is despite the fact that a bomb killed the leader of the country’s governing council today. I just don’t see it.
I may have been against the invasion in the first place, but I do believe that once you start a job, you really do have to finish it. And any intentions of “running away” really have to go by the wayside. The country is unstable, and any underlying intentions of pulling troops out should be forgotten right away. It’s a terribly thankless task that’ll no doubt cost manymore lives, but any person with some kind of salient intelligence should have realised that at the outset. Now it’s too late.
I disagreed with the Spanish who have all but removed their troops from the country following a general election. The popular vote was against them going, as was the case in the UK. But now we’re there, we have to see the job finished, and that may will almost certainly take years. There’s nothing we can do about it.