Thursday, October 26, 2006

The best solution I've heard to change course in Iraq

Former intelligence officer Ralph Peters has the best solution to the problems in Iraq of all that I've read: KILL MUQTADA NOW

Here are some excerpts:

I lost faith in our engagement in Iraq last week. I can pinpoint the moment.

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We should've killed him in 2003, when he first embarked upon his murder campaign. But our leaders were afraid of provoking riots.

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We must kill - not capture - Muqtada, then kill every gunman who comes out in the streets to avenge him.

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And after we've killed Muqtada and destroyed his Mahdi Army, we need to go after the Sunni insurgents. If we can't leave a democracy behind, we should at least leave the corpses of our enemies.

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The holier-than-thou response to this proposal is predictable: "We can't kill our way out of this situation!" Well, boo-hoo. Friendly persuasion and billions of dollars haven't done the job. Give therapeutic violence a chance.

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There's still a chance, if a slight one, that we can achieve a few of our goals in Iraq - if we let our troops make war, not love. But if our own leaders are unwilling to fight, it's time to leave and let Iraqis fight each other.


AMEN


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