My lefty friends and readers got mad last year when I referred to the pro-tyranny marchers. I’m glad the tyrant is gone. I stand by my description of the marchers based on their lukewarm reaction to the tyrant’s downfall and capture.
I’m sure this years supporters of the marchers will be similarly displeased about my naming the marchers pro-genocide.
The strongest case for pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan is to promote genocide. Pulling out is a position that has a great deal of logic behind it.
In Iraq, the Kurds would cleanse the Sunni in Mosul and Tikrit and take the northern oil; the Shia would take Baghdad and ethnically cleanse most of the Sunni who had been killing Shia for decades. In Afghanistan the slaughter would be perpetual among the five main language separated ethnic groups.
The pro-genocide argument that makes the most sense is that genuine peace has only occurred in history when “enough blood was shed”. By trying to intervene in genocidal warfare we are only wasting our lives and our energy, because the genocide will continue after we leave until “enough blood is shed”.
The pro-genocide marchers have plenty of recent evidence to support their position. Ethnic cleansing is the current state of affairs from the Tutsi and Hutu in Rwanda, to Somalia, to the Serbs and Albanians killing each other in yesterday’s newspapers while 19,000 peace keepers try to stop them, to the Lebanese war that is thirty years old, to many tribes in the Indonesian archipelago, to the continual tribal slaughter in Cambodia, to the still festering war in Sri Lanka and the grand daddy of all ethnic wars that continues under the careful eye of an old democracy that can’t stop it: Northern Ireland.
It is also well to remember that the first great democracy was only able to survive, the Netherlands in 1600, by splitting in two: Holland and Belgium.
The argument for letting genocidal tribes kill each other, without getting us in the middle, has a great deal of logic to it.
I’m personally more optimistic about the long-term effectiveness of democracy in Iraq and Afghanistan. My best examples of genocidal tribes getting along in a democracy are Switzerland, India and Canada.