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2006-12-11 Home Front: WoT

Mary Katharine Ham: I know a Marine, and he knows the stakes

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Posted by .com 2006-12-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Eighty percent of Baghdad is mixed neighborhoods. If the US took the conflict to that level, US troops would no longer be only an occasional target.

What do we do?
1. Hand the keys to Iraq, to Iran's Ayatollahs?
2. Cut and run, leaving the Sects to fight for dominance?
3. Allow Iran and Turkey to slaughter Kurds?
4. Let China and Russia divvy up the ME oil patch?
5. Take sides with one Sect, and let them pacify the other, as was it done under the Saddam Hussein regime?
6. Impose a Secular Constitution on Iraq, and liquidate the aggressive clerics?

We have no alternative but to pick #5, and eliminate Iran power as a precondition.

Posted by Sneaze Shaiting3550 2006-12-11 00:33|| 2006-12-11 00:33|| Front Page Top

#2 The ISG; composed of Generals, Mid-E experts, and cultural professors? Nope.

Composed of folks who've never been on the ground there or in the fight at any level? Yep.

Taking the ISG seriously is like asking me and my drinking buddies to form a study on the macro economic solution to the U.S.'s trade-deficit problems.

If I want to know stuff about the Supreme Court I'll ask Sandra Day, if I want to know stuff about advising a pres maybe I'll ask James Baker; otherwise the ISG is mostly shite.

Posted by Broadhead6 2006-12-11 17:31|| 2006-12-11 17:31|| Front Page Top

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