Our imperfect world

We live in an imperfect world. It is always easy to see, after the fact, where a particular decision has yielded less than the hoped for results. Utopia rarely exists. This is true for decisions we make in our personal lives, decisions by businesses and decisions made by our elected officials, local, state and national.

After the fact it is always debatable if another choice would have resulted in a more favorable outcome. The fact that we achieved less than an optimum result does not automatically mean that another choice would have been better. It is possible that it might have been worse. In life we do not get the opportunity to go back and try another course of action.

The Bush “bashers” who are so highly critical are simply whiners and offer nothing in the nature of what action should be taken now. Conceding that the decision to invade Iraq was the wrong one, we can’t go back and do it over. What needs to be done now is to carefully assess the situation today and decide on actions from this day forward. It should be clear to all thinking people that the insurgents 1) are interested only in power and control and 2) hope to win by dividing the US. A victory for them is not in the best interest of the non-Muslim world or for the majority of peaceful Muslims. The simplistic approach is to simply walk away. What would be the consequences of that? How would the struggle for power among the various factions play out? It should be very clear that if Iraq could establish a functioning democracy (which would please the majority of Iraqis — witness the support in the last election) that would be the best solution. What isn’t clear is whether that is a viable possibility.

To use an expression I learned from my mother, “I am sick and tired” of all the whining from the Bush bashers.

Glen Holzhausen