Krauthammer on Iraq

Charles Krauthammer gives us some of the most sensible sentences ever uttered on the war in Iraq. And they come in response to some comments by Fareed Zakaria, who we've met before

The final two paragraphs say it best...

We have made a lot of mistakes in Iraq. But when Arabs kill Arabs and Shiites kill Shiites and Sunnis kill all in a spasm of violence that is blind and furious and has roots in hatreds born long before America was even a republic, to place the blame on the one player, the one country, the one military that has done more than any other to try to separate the combatants and bring conciliation is simply perverse.

It infantilizes Arabs. It demonizes Americans. It willfully overlooks the plainest of facts: Iraq is their country. We midwifed their freedom. They chose civil war.

Interestingly I discovered this column through Oxblog who seems to disapprove of the sentiment.