A Fascinating Proposal For Iraq
After some initial consideration, I think this could be a workable compromise for the situation in Iraq:
Yugoslavia didn’t fall into place in a day. It did so in sequential chunks. Recognizing Kurdistan-the-success is crucial to keeping the Big Bang sequential instead of cumulative.
Take what the board gives you, I say.
And pull most U.S. troops eventually back to Kurdistan. Don’t leave Iraq, but stay where you’re welcome and accept a certain commute for certain necessary activities.
Grow some lawn and stop only killing weeds. Then let others see where the grass is greener.
Demonstration effects make globalization go round.
Pulling the troops back into Kurdistan would remove them, for the most part, from harm’s way. Kurdistan is a serene region of Iraq were your average American, cultural and language differences aside, would feel right at home. So putting the troops in Kurdistan would make them safer than they are now, yet they would still be in Iraq ready and able to support the Iraqi government and its security forces as needed.
Should the surge strategy not work out as we hope (some are already claiming that this has happened, but let’s not forget that the strategy hasn’t been fully implemented yet nor has it been given time to work while fully implemented) this would be a good alternative. Certainly better than abandoning Iraq to chaos altogether.
