Iraq, revisited.

I'm having a Slate Day:

The United States is awash in human rights groups, feminist organizations, ecological foundations, and committees for the rights of minorities. How come there is not a huge voluntary effort to help and to publicize the efforts to find the hundreds of thousands of "missing" Iraqis, to support Iraqi women's battle against fundamentalists, to assist in the recuperation of the marsh Arab wetlands, and to underwrite the struggle of the Kurds, the largest stateless people in the Middle East? Is Abu Ghraib really the only subject that interests our humanitarians?

What would it be like if progressives stopped trying to pull the troops out of Iraq and started working on ways to help the people of Iraq develop their infrastructure and fight back against the anarchists/insurgents/fundamentalists/terrorists who keep getting in the way of progress.

We are at a crossroads here--we can keep trying to fight Bush at every turn, or we can recognize that there is a chance to do good and to make the world--specifically Iraq--a better place, even if the original war was a bad idea.