No, Senator Brownbeack...this should be a military solution, a political solution has been the problem.....come home and support our President!
Brownback is a Senator, a designation that makes any claim to common sense automatically suspect and any presidential ambitions profoundly unserious.
New Orleans suffers from crime far worse than Iraq. Why don't we find a political solution with the criminal gangs infesting that cesspool? Heck, why don't we redeploy the city police and other law enforcement officials from the quagmire to Sitka, Alaska? Divide New Orleans into several cities roughly along dominant gang turf boundaries? Quit sending tens and hundreds of billions of dollars to that cesspool? Oh, wait--that last item might be a good idea, considering that New Orleans properly belongs to the alligators.
We've been fighting a PC war over there. No wonder we can't win. We always needed to be fighting a REAL fight, not a seven step approach to fighting, as was related on FOX tonight. Good grief, let our soldiers fight.
I disagree with you: the problem in Iraq is more political than anything else. It is because for centuries the Sunnis and the Shia’s have treated each other as enemies that we have this big mess today. As long as Sunnis and Shia’s will not become more reasonable and agree to make a serious effort to live in peace with each other, adding more troops is useless. It is like a doctor putting a band-aid on the body of a patient who is terminally ill. On this point Senator Sam Brownback is right. Just adding more troops will not do the trick.
However, I listened carefully to what President George Bush said in his speech. George Bush is not advocating that we only send more troops … and that’s all, folks! If that was the only strategy, it surely would fail. George Bush is also demanding that other things must change on the ground with the Iraqis. And I think that Sam Brownback fully agrees with these changes (crackdown by the Iraqi goverment on sectarian violence, American troops embedded with the Iraqi troops, definite improvement of the situation by November, etc.).
It seems to me that Sam Brownback and George Bush are actually on the same page: “just sending more troops is not the solution because the problem is more political than anything else” (this is what Sam Brownback says). “More troops will be sent, but serious changes will take place on the ground” (this is what George Bush says). And here, I believe that Sam Brownback will agree with George Bush if actually serious political changes on the ground occur, while more troops are sent.