Saturday, December 16, 2006
Scarecrow has a Modest Proposal
Over at Firedoglake Scarecrow has, in the best tradition of Jonathan Swift, attempted to post a satirical look at Our Dear Embungled Leader's desire to cement his reputation as the worst president ever.
I propose we unify Iraqis by encouraging them to stop shooting at each other and start shooting at us. Every time they start shooting at each other, we need to step right in the middle, to draw their fire away from each other. If we’re good at this, everyone will be shooting at Americans. That will reduce the number of Iraqis who have a grudge against other Iraqis; the sectarian hatred will lessen.It is a valiant effort but for satire to succeed it should be seen as supporting an opposite viewpoint. Merely presenting Our Dear Befuddled Leader's grand strategy in Iraq in an almost verbatim manner, sadly, does not work.
To succeed at this, we’ll need to arm and train the Iraqi forces, because when they shoot at the Americans, we don’t want untrained Iraqis accidentally killing each other instead. Embedding US advisers in Iraqi's forces will also help, and so will losing billions worth of weapons to the black market, where they can be distributed more efficiently.
We'll need to surge more troops into Baghdad to make sure we can get into the middle of every Iraqi firefight. And we should also expand the Marines and Army and make it easier to send our Reserves and National Guard, in case we have to “double down,” because we don’t want our policy to fail just ‘cause we ran out of troops to be shot at.
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