Jason Lefkowitz's forlorn hope
According to a new Gallup poll out today, Most Americans now say that sending U.S. troops to Iraq was a mistake.
I’ve been saying that on this blog at least since September 2002! It breaks my heart that it’s taken hundreds of dead American soldiers (and who knows how many thousands of dead Iraqi soldiers and civilians) to clue in fifty percent of my fellow citizens…
Jason A. Lefkowitz is a programmer and writer. For his sins, he lives in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. This is his "blog." (Kids, ask your parents.)
Except where otherwise noted, all content on this Web site is provided under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license.
A web feed for this site is available, in Atom 1.0 format.
Fonts by TypeKit. For turbo nerds, a colophon is available here.
Comments
Ginger
June 25, 2004
11:16 am
Hindsight is always 20/20. At this point, it doesn’t really matter if the majority thinks it was mistake. We’re there. We started this. We have to finish it, we can’t just abandon the Iraqi people again. Complaining and polling and whatever else doesn’t change that we have a responsibility now and can’t just up and leave because we’re sorry we came.