LTTE to the New York Times: 'A Way Out of Iraq'

[checks-n-balances]

(Read the article by Bob Herbert, referenced by Dr. Hunsinger - link below)

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/18/opinion/l18herbert.html?pagewanted=print

August 18, 2005
A Way Out of Iraq
To the Editor:

Bob Herbert is right ("No End in Sight in Iraq," column, Aug. 11*). We need a serious national conversation about exiting from Iraq.

First, we need to face reality: no good options exist. The American-led occupation is the main cause of the insurgency, not the cure. Yet an abrupt pullout could lead to even more chaos. The last best hope lies in "internationalizing" the peacekeeping forces until Iraq can take over on its own.

Those who object to this path as unrealistic need to explain how we can better extricate ourselves from the biggest American policy disaster since Vietnam.

George Hunsinger

Princeton, N.J., Aug. 11, 2005

The writer, a professor of theology at Princeton Theological Seminary, is the coordinator of Church Folks for a Better America.

------------------------------------------------------------------

* No End in Sight in Iraq by Bob Herbert:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/10/opinion/11herbert.done.html?ei=5070&en=f3ee9b09642f4701&ex=1124510400&pagewanted=print