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THE CONSERVATIVE REVIEW - November 3, 2009
The Fruits of Intervention
by Pat Buchanan
If we had it to do over, would we send an army into
Afghanistan to build a nation?
Would we invade Iraq?
While these two wars have cost 5,200 dead, a trillion
dollars and a divided America facing an endless war, what
have we won?
Gen. Stanley McChrystal needs 40,000 to 80,000 more troops,
or we risk "mission failure" in Afghanistan. At present
casualty rates -- October was the worst month of the war
-- thousands more Americans will die before we see any
light at the end of this tunnel, if ever we do.
Pakistan, which aided us in Afghanistan, now has a war
of its own to fight. Its army is in a battle in South
Waziristan, while the country is wracked by terror bomb-
ings, the latest in a Peshawar bazaar that specialized
in women's clothing and jewelry and toys for kids. So
horrific was the toll even the Taliban and al-Qaida
denied any role in it.
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The 130,000 U.S. troops in Iraq are, after almost seven
years, to begin pulling out two months after January's
election. But a hitch has developed. Iraq's parliament
missed the deadline for setting the rules. At issue:
Will voters be allowed to choose individual candidates,
or will they be allowed only to vote for slates of
candidates?
Gen. Ray Odierno implies that postponement of the election
may mean postponement of U.S. withdrawals.
Ominously, in August, terrorists bombed the foreign and
finance ministries in Baghdad, and last week blew up the
Justice Ministry and Baghdad Provincial Governorate. And
the Kurds are now claiming their control of oil-rich Kirkuk
is non-negotiable, which crosses a red line in Baghdad.
Next door, a terror attack by Jundallah (God's Brigade) in
Iran's southern province of Sistan-Baluchistan killed 40,
including two senior commanders of the Revolutionary Guard.
An enraged Tehran pointed the finger at the United States,
as there have been charges the CIA has been in contact
with Jundallah as part of President Bush's destabilization
program to effect "regime change."
But Barack Obama has been in office for nine months --
and he would never authorize such an attack on the eve of
a critical meeting on Iran's nuclear program. Moreover,
the State Department condemned the Jundallah bombing as
terrorism and offered public condolences to the families
of the victims.
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But if we didn't authorize this, who did?
Was the timing of this attack coincidental? Were these
just freelance secessionists on an operation unrelated to
the U.S.-Iran talks? Or is someone trying to torpedo the
talks and push Iran and the United States into military
collision?
For this was a provocation. And whoever carried it out and
whoever authorized or abetted it wishes to dynamite the
U.S.-Iran negotiations, abort a rapprochement and put us
on a road to war.
Speculation is focusing on the Saudis, the Gulf Arabs and
the Israelis, who have been accused, as has the United
States, of aiding PJAK, a Kurdish faction that has
conducted raids in northern Iran.
If we have any control of these organizations, we should
shut them down. With U.S. armies tied up in Iraq and
Afghanistan, and America conducting Predator and cross-
border attacks in Pakistan, provoking a war with Iran
would be an act of madness.
Looking back, how has all this fighting advanced U.S.
national interests? We have a "democratic" Iraq that is
Shia-dominated and tilting to Iran. We have an open-ended
war in Afghanistan that will likely do for Obama what
Iraq did for Bush. But we can't pull out, it is said,
for if we do, Kabul falls and Afghanistan becomes the
sanctuary for an Islamist war to take over Pakistan and
its nuclear weapons.
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And if that should happen, it would indeed be a crisis.
And so, how has all this intervention availed us?
We ran Saddam out of Kuwait and put U.S. troops into Saudi
Arabia. And we got Osama bin Laden's 9-11. We responded by
taking down the Taliban and taking over Afghanistan. And
we got an eight-year war with no victory and no end in
sight. Now Pakistan is burning. We took down Saddam and
got a seven-year war and an ungrateful Iraq.
Meanwhile, the Turks, who shared a border with Saddam, have
done no fighting. Iran has watched as we destroyed its two
greatest enemies, the Taliban and Saddam. China, which has
a border with both Pakistan and Afghanistan, has sat back.
India, which has a border with Pakistan and fought three
wars with that country, has stayed aloof.
The United States, on the other side of the world, plunged
in. And now we face an elongated military presence in Iraq,
an escalating war in Afghanistan and potential disaster in
Pakistan, and are being pushed from behind into a war with
Iran.
"America rejects the false comfort of isolationism," said
George W. Bush in his 2006 State of the Union. And we did
reject that false comfort. And now we can enjoy the fruits
of interventionism.
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