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Pass the buck.
“Iraq may get better; Iraq may get worse. We may be successful
in Iraq; we may not be. I don’t know the answer to that. That’s
in the hands of other people. But what we do know for sure is the terrorists
are going to be at war with us a year, a year and a half from now.”
– Candidate
Rudy
This is stunning. Notice I didn’t say surprising. No one wants to touch Iraq,
no one, least of all any of the Republican presidential candidates. So Rudy,
instead of admitting he might have to actually solve the problems our involvement
in Iraq has wrought, including escalation, seems to be saying that “other
people” hold the future in their hands. It’s here we might ask who are
those “other people?” The military, perhaps?
News flash for Rudy, in our democratic republic the civilians are in charge
of foreign policy and making war, even when Congress doesn’t actually declare
war. You can’t pass the buck and lay it all on the military, including the decisions
on what to do next. Well, you can, but then you have to call America something
other than what the Founders intended.
Nice to know that’s what Rudy has in mind.
As Greg
Sargent pointed out earlier today, in Rudy’s “12 Commandments
Commitments,” Iraq is not mentioned once. Evidently, it’s not his problem.
“Other people” will have to deal with it. So if hell freezes and Rudy is the GOP nominee, it’s good to know what they’d do on Iraq.
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