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Don’t forget to include in your analysis just how much that will piss off the Turks and their attempt to delegitimize the entire concept of Kurdistan.

Interesting, somewhat similar to Taking A Step Back (March 2006)

What if, for say a week or a month, American soldiers left the streets of Iraq?

What would happen?

Would “the people” of Iraq finally take up arms and defend their own country from the terrorists?

Or would they sit back and allow the terrorists to gain control just as Saddam had?

These are important questions that “the American people” should know the answers to in order to determine what course of action is taken here on out.

Now, because our American soldiers would still be there to back-up Iraqi forces this would not involve a withdrawal of any troops, just a removal from public view of the general citizenry.

One could object to this strategy by arguing that “the Iraqi people will think we have abandoned them.”

This is true, and it is why the message of what we are doing must be made clear.

One could continue to object by saying “won’t ‘the people’ just side with the terrorists who will say they will protect them.”

That is a very good point. If that is the case, will “the Iraqi” people EVER defend their own country?

If the answer to that question is ‘no,’ we would then need to reexamine why we are there.

If the Iraqi people are not willing to revolt against the terrorists while American troops are still there to bail them out, what makes us think they will once our troops are gone?

If the Iraqi People will not take up arms to defend what has been GIVEN to them with the blood of Americans, then clearly it is not worth spilling more blood for a people that will not appreciate the Freedom that has been given to them.

We must, somehow determine whether what America is doing in Iraq with last beyond America’s presence and protection. If not, every soldier that is lost from now till then will be have been an unneeded sacrifice in a world with new threats popping up each day.

Finally, we cannot conduct our foreign policy in a way that Iran becomes out exit strategy out of Iraq.

Yugoslavia didn’t fall into place in a day

Yugoslavia no longer exists.

Without US troops what would happen to the Green Zone containing the Iraqi Gov’t and the US embassy.
They’d better get to Kurdistan before the troops .

Kurdistan cannot exist outside of Iraq. Just ask any Turk and they will say: Rob is blowing hot air, for he does not know the politics of the region.

I thought you were winning. now you are looking for some way to run away and not look like a loser.

The jihadis target American soldiers whenever they can.  Why move them to a relatively serene area, thus disrupting the calm?

So why couldn’t they “redeploy” to Kurdistan?  Political?  Actually, not a bad idea.

Communism is evil

Didn’t Murtha suggest an over the horizon force in Kurdistan and Kuwait about a year ago?

I believe Murtha’s suggestion was to withdraw around the corner… to Okinawa.

Unless you are a defense contractor and client of his lobbyist brother Kip, there is no earthly reason to listen to anything uttered by Congressman Jack Murtha.

“Capitalism is optimism monetized.”

Sorry,

I have to disagree here.  I would not cede real estate that we have bought and paid for with the blood of soldiers and Marines. 

I would not give the terrorists free reign.

I want to give them nothing except fear and death.

I want them to have to keep hiding, looking over their shoulders and dreading their doors and windows getting blown in at any given moment. 

I would not give them a free base of operations in which they could train, stage and direct operations with impunity. 

Why this retreat mentality?

Yes, it’s tough, we have to be surgical in excising the cancer while allowing the patient to live, but we need to have boots on the ground to do it.

If anything else, I would partition the country, creating buffer zones between the respective areas.

I would particularly make the Iranian and Syrian borders a No Man’s Land.  Post the border with signs in all local languages and in English, that entry was forbidden, deadly force is authorized.  I would seed the border areas with sensors, automatic and command-detonated mines, long-loiter surveillance drones and blimps and autonomous KillBots, to supplement the regular patrols.

I understand that the vast majority of Iragi provinces are fairly peaceful, and the problems are mostly relegated to three. 

Focus on those three provinces, to include the cordon-and-search sweeps of the area, County Fair census operations and the like. 

I might even include PsyOps operations, such as burying the “martyred” terrorists with dogs and pigs, denying them their 72 virgins in the afterlife, and let the wannabees know it.

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