Iraqi Irony and the Solution
The Irony of Iraq
So I am driving home from work yesterday listening to the radio. I usually alternate between the Savage Nation and the NPR news, depending on my mood and what Michael Savage is talking about. But there was a story from Iraq that caught my ear and I can’t help but laugh about it.
Apparently our fearless leader, Dubya, has been telling the Iraqi PM that we were going to set some benchmarks and goals for them to meet as part of the eventual goal of bringing our people home. You know, the kinds of things that seem reasonable enough to me like “show us some tangible proof that you are taking over your own security by the end of the year” sort of thing. Make them do something. Well the PM did not like this and he got up in front of his television people and made American foreign policy for us. He told them that it is unacceptable for us to set timetables or deadlines for him to meet and that it would not help the situation on the ground for us to expect them to do that.
What??
We gave him his country. We paid for his freedom with the blood of our children and he has the gall to get up there and tell us that it is unacceptable for us to think that we are going to be able to leave anytime soon?? I say the hell with that. Tell him he has until the spring, maybe April or May, and if he is not making significant progress in controlling his own country than we are out of there. No excuses. Make them work for their country. For the past 3 years they have done nothing to secure themselves. Why should they? They have us there to take care of it for them. They have no real incentive to take care of themselves as long as we are in the middle of this open-ended quagmire. Now I have many thoughts about the situation over there, and most of them are not very popular. I listen to Michael Savage almost every day and while I don’t necessarily agree with all of his views on things I still greatly admire him. He is one of the very few people in this country that has his beliefs and convictions and will stand up for them no matter what. He is not a yes man and he does not sway his opinions or ideals based on what the popular trend of the day is. He stands up for what he believes and I respect that.
My thought is that we need to get the hell out of there. It is not a winnable war in my opinion because we don’t even know who we are fighting. Is that guy across the street trying to go about his business and go to work or is he a suicide bomber? It is impossible to win a war when the enemy looks just like the innocents without wholesale slaughter, which is not something that we will ever even consider. So here is my plan.
1. Pull our people out right now. Have most of them home in time for Christmas. Leave it up to the Iraqis to figure out how they are going to run their country. These people have been killing each other for hundreds of years. I say let them fight it out.
2. While they are all busy annihilating themselves we immediately set about securing our own country. Deploy our troops to secure our borders, ports, and airports. Nobody gets in without being screened. This would also give them time to repair and upgrade our military apparatus.
3. Wait for the dust to settle in the Middle East and see who is in power when it is over. We open our borders to legal, legitimate refugees and immigrants who have to come through very intense screenings and background checks. If whatever new government that forms there is friendly towards us than we have a new ally. If they are not, we bomb the whole country back into the Stone Age. Night time sorties without any notice and without remorse.
We are the US f’n A. This would not be submitting to defeat in any way. This would be pulling out of a mess, regrouping, and letting them kill each other while we watch and worry about ourselves. Give them a chance to fix the problem themselves for a few years. If they prove incapable then we just kill ‘em all.
Simple.
So I am driving home from work yesterday listening to the radio. I usually alternate between the Savage Nation and the NPR news, depending on my mood and what Michael Savage is talking about. But there was a story from Iraq that caught my ear and I can’t help but laugh about it.
Apparently our fearless leader, Dubya, has been telling the Iraqi PM that we were going to set some benchmarks and goals for them to meet as part of the eventual goal of bringing our people home. You know, the kinds of things that seem reasonable enough to me like “show us some tangible proof that you are taking over your own security by the end of the year” sort of thing. Make them do something. Well the PM did not like this and he got up in front of his television people and made American foreign policy for us. He told them that it is unacceptable for us to set timetables or deadlines for him to meet and that it would not help the situation on the ground for us to expect them to do that.
What??
We gave him his country. We paid for his freedom with the blood of our children and he has the gall to get up there and tell us that it is unacceptable for us to think that we are going to be able to leave anytime soon?? I say the hell with that. Tell him he has until the spring, maybe April or May, and if he is not making significant progress in controlling his own country than we are out of there. No excuses. Make them work for their country. For the past 3 years they have done nothing to secure themselves. Why should they? They have us there to take care of it for them. They have no real incentive to take care of themselves as long as we are in the middle of this open-ended quagmire. Now I have many thoughts about the situation over there, and most of them are not very popular. I listen to Michael Savage almost every day and while I don’t necessarily agree with all of his views on things I still greatly admire him. He is one of the very few people in this country that has his beliefs and convictions and will stand up for them no matter what. He is not a yes man and he does not sway his opinions or ideals based on what the popular trend of the day is. He stands up for what he believes and I respect that.
My thought is that we need to get the hell out of there. It is not a winnable war in my opinion because we don’t even know who we are fighting. Is that guy across the street trying to go about his business and go to work or is he a suicide bomber? It is impossible to win a war when the enemy looks just like the innocents without wholesale slaughter, which is not something that we will ever even consider. So here is my plan.
1. Pull our people out right now. Have most of them home in time for Christmas. Leave it up to the Iraqis to figure out how they are going to run their country. These people have been killing each other for hundreds of years. I say let them fight it out.
2. While they are all busy annihilating themselves we immediately set about securing our own country. Deploy our troops to secure our borders, ports, and airports. Nobody gets in without being screened. This would also give them time to repair and upgrade our military apparatus.
3. Wait for the dust to settle in the Middle East and see who is in power when it is over. We open our borders to legal, legitimate refugees and immigrants who have to come through very intense screenings and background checks. If whatever new government that forms there is friendly towards us than we have a new ally. If they are not, we bomb the whole country back into the Stone Age. Night time sorties without any notice and without remorse.
We are the US f’n A. This would not be submitting to defeat in any way. This would be pulling out of a mess, regrouping, and letting them kill each other while we watch and worry about ourselves. Give them a chance to fix the problem themselves for a few years. If they prove incapable then we just kill ‘em all.
Simple.
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