It's time for the MSM to start pushing the administration on what it would consider "success" in Iraq... a mere "democracy" of some sort doesn't seem to cut it...
We've seen 2,000 troop deaths, thousands more injured, and tens of thousands of Iraqi deaths...But as Iraq frames its new constitution, we're staring at:
- A constitution that establishes Islam as a driving and dominant force in Iraqi law...
- As part of that Koranic law, women will have few rights, especially in matters like marriage, divorce, and inheritance...Unbelievably, the move would replace a set of laws under Saddam that afforded much stronger protection of women's rights... i.e., this would be a step BACKWARD...
- A push to remove the interim constitution's guarantee to have women represented in parliament...
- A recent trip to Tehran by the Iraqi Prime Minister and 8 high level cabinet members, to discuss oil, joint security concerns, pilgrimage, etc...
So here's the big question:
even against the revised rationale of spreading freedom, should we be happy that the ultimate outcome to all of this might be another IRAN? ... a new Iran that partners closely with Iran proper? Last I saw, the latter is a gold card member of the Axis of Evil...
Maybe we need new talking points -- something like, "Shiite -- rather than Sunni -- oppression is on the march"...
... the hope is that since it's an ongoing process, this movement will be undercut... but it's very troubling, imo