Snip: I don't recall seeing an unconditional terrorist surrender video, so any suggestion of troop withdrawal had better mean that it's time for the U.S. to start annihilating terrorists faster so they can wrap this whole Iraq thing up. Any other implication is unacceptable.
In this case, I suggest the Emeril "BAM! Kick it up a notch!" Lagasse military strategy.
The areas of Iraq where insurgency is still an issue need to be treated to a military airshow, featuring interactive bomb-dodging.
Let's call it the U.S. Peace Through Superior Firepower Exposition 2007.
The same type of show was a resounding success in Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II. Japanese Emperor Hirohito was so blown away that he realized he couldn't top the act, and settled for it being the war's grand finale.
This strategy bypasses all the handwringing over whether to shoot the enemy on the spot (as has always been a soldier's right, since the Peace of Westphalia), or allow him to complain about having to make naked pyramids in jail.
Hiroshima/Nagasaki saw a quarter-million civilian deaths. Nowadays, liberals have made war into something like a trip to the produce section of the local supermarket, where we have to paw through a pile of nectarines, separating the good ones from the rotten.
Liberals also seem to think that because the terrorists are using guns and backpack bombs as weapons, the U.S. can't break out the shiny, expensive toys.
Very well stated, MamaDearest.