Why It is Imperative that America Fail in Iraq.
Martin C. Boire
www.TruthForUs.com
July 30, 2008

It is critical to some that America be forced to fail in Iraq. A failure would create many positive results for certain interests and people. The following is my estimation of these interests.

Interest #1: The Pacification of America
It is important to many people and interests in America to pull the eagle’s talons and merge America and Americans into their world community. They believe in the world community they are slowly constructing more than they do individual nations.

If America can be forced to fail in Iraq, our shame while overtake our confidence. Textbooks and teachers will instruct this generation and the next that we were wrong, and that we failed. They will teach that withdrawal saved countless lives, and that those who advocated staying-the-course wasted countless lives and would have continued to do so for naught.

Having forced failure and thereby created a situation in which they are right de facto, it will appear that their advice and views should be followed in other matters as well.

It will be used as proof that America can only succeed when it acts in close concert with the world community. That go-it-alone “adventurism” or “intervention” is unsuccessful. That we can avoid such costly mistakes in the future by signing up fully to the U.N. version of world cooperation and use of force. (Afghanistan is OK because there we are part of a collectivist NATO operation, which such interests view as more of a SWAT team police operation than a national war.)

People and interests who advocate that it is best for nations not to go it alone in the world also necessarily believe that it best for individuals not to go it alone within their countries.

The failure will be thus be used as proof to reinforce the correctness of these interests’ domestic positions that everything which is done is best done as part of a collective group. It will be used to convince people that following their vision of nationalized healthcare, employment, child care, and the like is the best way for people to personally go. And since nations don’t matter in and of themselves, (they are just corporate divisions) then borders and immigration don’t matter (it’s just employees moving around among company divisions).

Interest #2: Selling Political Ideologies and Visions
America has always been a land of competing ideologies advocating their visions for how the country ought to go about doing things. The tangible successes and failures of these visions convince people to follow or ignore particular ideologies advocating them. Nothing dissuades and memorializes like failure. Nothing succeeds and energizes like success of victory.

It is therefor a political necessity for the ideology that opposed the war to endeavor to force its failure. It is a political necessity for ideologies at odds with those currently supporting the war to distinguish themselves by opposing the war (otherwise questions like “why you?” and “what’s the difference?” come up; so they take a position of opposition just to be recognizably different and present a choice for voters and for no other reason.)

Interest #3: Our Military Cannot Produce Success
Certain people and interests believe that the military is inherently bad. Nothing succeeds like success, and so our military cannot be allowed to succeed. We cannot be allowed to have an instance that causes us to believe that our military can produce a success. These people and interests believe that success in the world cannot be produced through military action. It is produced only through dialogue and knitting oneself into the international order.

A success in Iraq would result in American pride and confidence in both our nation and our military. A success in Iraq would prove that we can invade, remove a strongman, empower the people with a new system of self-control, and leave as friends set to work together as two nations in the future. If we fail in Iraq America will not go to war for a long long time. The bitterness of the loss in blood and treasure will endure for decades. Our confidence will be sapped as it was after Vietnam. They will bill it as another Vietnam.

These people and interests like our military for show, and do not believe in actually using it for our nation’s particular interest. Doing so is incompatible with working within the world order. It is OK to use the military for “peacekeeping” in the Balkans, Somalia, or in the future Darfur. But not for national protection. They therefore defund it as unnecessary. In this view America is just one subsidiary company within a world corporation. Competing companies are no longer needed or wanted. One corporate roof for the world; one roof over each subsidiary.

As of mid-2008 it is fairly clear that America has just about finished succeeding in Iraq, and is in the finishing stages of creating a stable friend. Pulling out before the completion of that success will likely leave a security vacuum, cause civil disruption and perhaps implosion or civil war, and leave no history or facts to disprove the pull out. Those who are presently supporting staying the course to final victory will never be able to objectively prove it could have been won. A forced failure will remove their ability to factually create that proof.

Interest #4: Mistakes Are to Be Aborted.
Regarding Iraq, certain interests and people fixate on their belief that we got into Iraq by mistake. They relentlessly brand Iraq as mistake, not an opportunity regardless of its origins.

Many of these people are also of the mindset in other areas that if something happens by mistake it must be aborted, that it is always alright to do so, and that there is never any reason not to. The consequence is that no one can ever physically see the wondrous result that what was lost.

Inconsistency is the hallmark of people who think this way. And the inconsistency here is that these people also love the U.N. and assert that the U.S. should only use its power consistent with the U.N. and its permissions.

But the U.N. rules require that America to see the job through in Iraq. As Tony Blair bluntly pointed out regarding the rules at the beginning: “You break it, you fix it.”

Interest #5: Bush Cannot Be Allowed to Win
This reason is purely personal. It is does not originate from a belief. It is simply the bind desire to make George Bush wrong, regardless of valor and the sacrifices invested by our soldiers for the real objective of the nation.
Here, Bush is close to final victory and thus being right. So it has to be personalized and snatched away from him. U.S. interests, reputation, success, primacy, and military capability are not at play in this reason.
If Iraq succeeds, Bush wins, everyone in the media and politics who has railed against him regarding Iraq will have been proven wrong.
Therefore it is critical to force America to fail in Iraq and thereby establish factually forever that Bush was wrong.
If this happens, it will be forever debated whether America could have won had we continued on. And the other side will be left with only making hypothetical arguments against the established fact of failure.

Interest #6: The Goal of Racial Islam on Par with the West
Many interests and people believe everyone should be equal. Why should Iran and other radicals be kept down by us. They don’t mean to hurt us. They don’t mean what they say. They are just reacting to what we do. It is we who are provoking them. If we just leave them alone they will be our friends. This view will ultimately allow Iran and radicals to control the region. They will organize and arm the region as a co-equal to the West. Our kids will die in the ensuing mess.

Interest #7: Something Good Cannot Come from Something Bad.
There are many people and interests within America who do not like America as it was created and configured. America is not good. Its values have been bad and need to be changed. The views and actions by these people are amply spelled elsewhere by them and their opposers, and I need not elaborate on them here.

For present purposes, the result of their beliefs is that because America is not good, America cannot go out into the world and tell other people what they should do. America is not morally correct and therefore cannot act. It is not worthy. It should take others’ advice and do it their way, not our way.

If and when empowered in this democracy, and thus able to control its national decisions, it will be important to implement those beliefs. So the war, a forced imposition of ourselves on another, is inherently wrong and will be made to fail. And by doing so at this junction that failure will seem as though it was inevitable due to our wrongness.

Forcing us to fail in Iraq will corrupt our soul, sap our strength, and make us more ripe for social control from within. And the social changes desired within America has already been announced by these persons and interests.

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Where some see mistakes, others see opportunity that should be nourished.

The first view is backward-looking and the glass is half full.  The second view is forward- looking and the glass is half full and can be made entire full.

The first view is consistent with the attitude that a mistaken pregnancy should aborted.  Quit and leave.  No responsibility.

The second view is consistent with the belief  that a mistake is meant to become something wonderful and good.   Stick with it and see it through.  Take responsibility.

Whining over how you got yourself into a situation has little to do with taking stock of where you are, what you have, and what you can make out of it.   When 3M made a mistake in searching for a particular adhesive and ended up with a tacky gooey one, they didn’t whine and mewl about how they got there; they turned it into Post-It® notes.

The point in Iraq is now that we are there, what can we make out of it? 

I know there are those who are psychologically disposed to see every glass as half empty.  Who always want someone else to do something, to fix something, to create something, to handle the problem for them.  But real men and women do it themselves.   And to those winners smart enough to see every glass as half full, I posit that Iraq is an opportunity to show that:

• We are worth having a friends.
• We are trustworthy.
• We will stick it out with them for their benefit.
• We are dependable.
• We are loyal.
• We keep our word.
• We don’t abandon people when the going gets tough.
• We don’t get people into a mess and then leave them in it.
• We are a good partner.

        I was forwarded the following email by the minister of a Methodist Church where we visited services one Sunday.   He read it to his congregation, and I was awestruck  Afterward I gave him my email address and asked him to forward it to me.   I do not know Sherry King, but her story speaks volumes. 

—–Original Message—–
From: —@aol.com  
Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2003 8:11 AM
To: —@prodigy.net
Subject: COMING HOME by Sherry King

I want to tell you of an experience I had last night flying home from Atlanta.   The pilot came on the intercom and went through the usual announcements telling us that “we’re just east of Montgomery cruising at 28,000 feet” and “you’ve picked a beautiful night for flying, just look at the gorgeous southern sunset out of the right side of the plane.”    He then, however, said this:  “Please bear with me as I deviate from the script, but I want you all to know that simply by coincidence you have been granted both the privilege and honor of escorting the body of Army PFC Howard Johnson, Jr. home tonight.

PFC Johnson was killed in Iraq defending the freedoms we all enjoy, and fighting to extend those freedoms to the people of Iraq.   We are also accompanied by PFC Johnson’s cousin, Marine Major Talley, who has been chosen by the family to escort PFC Johnson home.  Semper Fi!”

The plane quickly became very quiet, but soon erupted in thunderous applause that lasted for several minutes. It was quite moving, to say the least.   As I sat there thinking about what the pilot had said, and visualizing PFC Johnson’s dead body riding below me in the belly of that plane, I noticed a couple of things.   Two rows in front of me sat a father holding his daughter, an infant, and they were practicing “ma-ma” and in the row behind me was another young boy, probably 2 or so, learning to count to 10.   Now obviously both are too young to realize we’re at war, or that one of our dead was with us, but it made me think, and this is the point:   These warriors, mostly young, all volunteers, everyday are prepared to give their lives for our future, for a safer, more secure future for people they don’t even know as well as for ourselves, all based on the principle that fighting and dying for this country is worth it.

By the way, the flight ended with all of us deplaning only to line the windows of the gate house to watch PFC Johnson’s body, draped in the American flag, be rolled out of the plane and into a waiting hearse that was surrounded by his family members.

Please pray that our soldiers’ sight is acute, their aim is true, and that as many come home as God can spare.

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