Military Victory Not An Option

Military victory is no longer possible in Iraq, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said in a television interview broadcast Sunday.

Kissinger presented a bleak future for Iraq, saying the US government must enter into dialogue with Iraq's regional neighbors, including Iran, if progress is to be made in the region.

"If you mean by 'military victory' an Iraqi government that can be established and whose writ runs across the whole country, that gets the civil war under control and sectarian violence under control in a time period that the political processes of the democracies will support, I don't believe that is possible," he told the British Broadcasting Corp.

But Kissinger, an architect of the Vietnam war who has advised President Bush about Iraq, warned against a rapid withdrawal of coalition troops, saying it could destabilize Iraq's neighbors and cause a long-lasting conflict.

"A dramatic collapse of Iraq - whatever we think about how the situation was created - would have disastrous consequences for which we would pay for many years and which would bring us back, one way or another, into the region," he said.

"I think we have to redefine the course, but I don't think that the alternative is between military victory, as defined previously, or total withdrawal," he said.

3 years, 8 months, 9 days since the war began thousands have died, and victory of what is the question. Sure we have done good for many people, yet it is out of control at this point and it all started at the beginning with the looting in the streets, after the fall of the dictator. Where was the armor for Troops, who was suppose to police the streets.

No Weapons of Mass Destruction found in Iraq, yet North Korea and Iran push ahead with their goals to have the weapon. Who's the threat is the question.