>>>Iraq - Quit or Stay, a column by Orson Scott Card. Who, I should point out, is a Democrat.
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>>And a science fiction writer ;)
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>Who is also for gun control, against the NRA and is highly critical of free-market capitalism. He can’t be all bad! :)
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>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card
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>When you choose a hero or someone with whom you agree with, you can’t have everything! :)
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>You have to agree with his conclusions about our presence in Iraq and leaving.
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>Being a Vietnam vet I remember:
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>1. We won the war. (According to some)
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>2. We signed a peace agreement.
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>3. We left Vietnam.
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>4. South Vietnam fell.
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>What happens to Iraq is up to Iraq.

Well, I'm one of those who believes that now that the U.S. has created this mess, they'll have to wallow in it until the system in Iraq starts to make some sense.

Card is wrong (in my opinion) in his basic assumption that the attack on Iraq was part of the 'war on terror', and he draws most of the rest of his conclusions from that erroneous premise.

Remember Erich Von Daniken (Chariots of the Gods)? If you accept his original premise that the ancients were incapable of doing the things they seem to have done without highly sophisticated outside help, then his arguments may seem to make sense. If not, then his arguments are just blathering drivel (which is how I see them).

In Card's favour though, is the fact that he has always been one of my favourite SF writers. The man can tell a story, alright.