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The current issue of TIME magazine looks at the Iraq war and using its staff of highly trained, professional political strategists and military staffers, TIME offers four options for “fixing” the war in Iraq. The only problem is all four options are W-R-O-N-G! TIME is simply repeating all the same old ideas that have been floating around for months. Big hairy deal. It’s time for a fresh idea and I have just the one to solve it all and the obvious solution evolves around two simple words: Britain - India.

The first thing we need to do is quit pussyfooting around with a democratic government in Iraq that is going nowhere fast. Let the Iraqis have their shadow government to play at governing and trying to figure out what they want to do. In the meantime it’s past time for America to impose a modern-day version of the British Raj in Iraq. Yes, you heard that right. here’s the deal ....

(1) Appoint a military governor for the country and give him absolute power, to include public executions if necessary. (2) Send in 100,000 more troops for a six month deployment and wipe out the “insurgency” once and for all. (3) Close and seal the borders with Syria and Iran - station troops on the borders to shoot first and ask questions later. (4) Start pumping oil as fast as possible to pay for all this. (5) Divide the country into three states: Sunnistan, Shiastan and Kurdistan and appoint a regional government over each - US military at first, gradually transitioning to Iraqi civilian control as soon as they act like they really want to govern properly. (6) Send half of the already “trained” Iraqi battalions to Afghanistan to fight Al-Qaeda there and tell them they can come home as soon as they wipe out the Taliban. (7) Disband all Iraqi militias and completely destroy any who object - and that includes Al Sadr’s goons.

There you go. The solution to Iraq. it worked for the Brits in India and it will work for the US in Iraq. Before the Brits left India, they had divided the country into Pakistan, India and Bangladesh to separate the warring factions, created a stable government in each and had made a tidy profit from their venture. We need to understand that, like the Brits, we may need to stay and “govern” Iraq for decades. That would be decades of cheap oil plus a forward-base in the region if Syria and Iran decide to get uppity. What everyone needs to understand is that if you can’t introduce democracy and stability with a ballot then it behooves us to establish those goals at the point of the spear if necessary.

Take a look at TIME’s wussy solutions below and compare it to my solution above. Tell me which one you think stands a better chance of success and be sure to factor out the screaming voices that will come from the United Nations, Amnesty International, the Arab League, OPEC and Lunatic Leftists at home. In this new plan, they will all be quietly ignored. Peace and quiet - and cheap oil ... a winning combination if ever I saw one ....

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Jack Ohman - The Portland Oregonian (OR)



TIME: Mr. Gates’ Options
Sunday, Nov. 26, 2006

Bob Gates is all things to all people in Washington these days. To the hard-liners who want to preserve what’s left of George W. Bush’s policy in Iraq, Gates is an ardent patriot, a determined anticommunist who thought the Soviet Union was an evil empire, who backed aggressive measures against the Sandinistas in Nicaragua in the early 1980s--and who during the first Bush Administration sided most often with a Defense Secretary named Dick Cheney.

To the new realists, who want to tear up this Administration’s failing bid to bring democracy to Iraq and replace it with a strategy for an exit, Gates is a secret ally, an agent of change who rocked the CIA he grew up in by shifting it out of covert action and into open-source programs at the cold war’s end--and then became a reformist president of Texas A&M, tossing a beloved football coach and reducing admissions.

The problem facing Gates is that the options being considered may already be obsolete. The conditions on the ground in Iraq are deteriorating so rapidly that even the Baker commission is struggling to keep up, several well-placed national-security sources told TIME. October was the deadliest month yet for Iraqi civilians since the start of the war, and November seems destined to surpass it. A Thanksgiving Day onslaught by Sunni militants killed more than 200 Iraqis, wounded hundreds and spurred a round of Shi’ite reprisals. As the Iraqi capital erupted in another frenzy of sectarian violence, the U.S. lost eight service members in a span of six days, bringing its death toll to nearly 2,900.

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