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Dress Rehearsal in Gaza
The insightful Ralph Peters has a great piece up at the New York Post.
He asks, “Wonder what Iraq would look like if we left tomorrow? Take a look at Gaza today. Then imagine a situation a thousand times worse.”
The barbarity in Gaza has become so grotesque that not even the media’s apologists for terror can ignore it (especially since Islamist fanatics began to target journalists).
Over the weekend, Hamas gangbangers-for-Allah grabbed a Fatah functionary and dropped him from the roof of a high-rise to check out the law of gravity (the only law that still obtains in Gaza). Tit-for-tat, Fatah gunmen grabbed a Hamas capo and gave him the same treatment.
Thereafter, cooler heads prevailed and both sides returned to their everyday routines of kidnapping, torturing and assassinating each other’s leaders, gunning down teachers and doctors and, of course, murdering women, children and stray pedestrians.
Though he pulls no punches on the Bush administration’s lack of planning for a post-Sadaam Iraq, he hammers the get-out-now crowd:
Meanwhile, back home, the get-out-now crowd pretends that, if only we pull out our troops, Iraqis will magically settle their internal grievances (presumably, the way the Palestinians have).
The Left doesn’t care how many Iraqis die, as long as President Bush can be humiliated. Four years ago, the neocons fantasized about a post-Saddam Age of Aquarius. Now the Murthacrats insist that, once we bail out, Atlantis will rise from the Tigris and Euphrates. The willful naivete is identical. The only differences are the timing and who gets blamed.
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We’re stuck in Iraq, and it sucks. But were we to leave in haste, far more blood than oil would flow in the Persian Gulf. The disaster in Gaza’s just a rehearsal for the Arab-suicide drama awaiting its opening night in Iraq.