Gwyn on America's new quagmire

Richard Gwyn, prominent Canadian journalist and chancellor of St Jerome's across the creek here predicts in today's Star that the US under Republicans has no choice but to stay in Iraq probably for ten more years. Gwyn writes, quoting George W. Bush from a recent radio broadcast:

'"Some may disagree with my decision to remove Saddam Hussein from power," he said, "but all of us can agree that the world's terrorists have now made Iraq a central front in the war on terror."
There Bush was blurting out the exact, bitter, and terrifying, truth — without realizing it.
Once the enemy in Iraq was a murderous, but mentally unstable and militarily weak, dictator. Bush has turned this sideshow into a "central front" in the war of terror.
And it's a front that the U.S. may lose. Not militarily, but politically, psychologically and morally. Which, in the end, is how Vietnam was lost.'

I guess we'll have to wait and see. In the meantime, there appears to be no letting down on the chaos, killing and uncertainty in Iraq - a quagmire indeed, and hopefully a lesson to Bush and Co. to think twice before upsetting regimes in other countries through armed intervention.