Why Iraq Must Be A Covert War

A war in Iraq fought by Special Operations is a war fought outside the public purview. Such a war is one that is limited only by the stealth and ability of the war fighters and not by debate, not by time, and not by public opinion. Democracy must be preserved in the United States, but there is no democracy on the battlefield except the freedom that a small unit has to use every asset at its disposal to efficiently and effectively accomplish its mission. In the United States, however, when the expression of democracy becomes imminently harmful to the very nation’s democracy, then that expression should not be prevented but redirected. Public opinion in the United States has the ability to confound the American effort in Iraq. The Iraq theater is too important in the effort to maintain global stability so that there will be no imminent threat posed against American democracy. Public opinion about the American presence in Iraq must not confound the effort or there is the potential that that opinion will enable such an imminent threat. So it is that public opinion has to be refocused. Bringing home conventional troops will redirect that focus.