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Well, Sherman, I proposed that:
(1) We divide Iraq (fake name, fake country ... actually invented by the British Foreign Office in 1916) back into the natural divisions the Turks used pre-WWI to successfully manage the unruly and largely worthless heathens who infest the place,
(2) de-populate by sending the present recumbents off to settle empty Afghanistan,
(3) re-populate the fly-blown mess with illegal alien Mexicans. We got plenty.
(4) run the place as an oil colony.
(5)I was chased out of Washington.

Kipling had the idea, dude. These are the "Lesser breeds, without the law."

Speaking of laughs, and largely worthless recumbents, when I voted for GW I thought the least I might reasonably expect would be a rational awl policy. After all, GW is a genuine Texas awl man, is he not? How about tax incentives to build more refineries, for starters.

Kipling had the idea, dude. These are the "Lesser breeds, without the law."

Not quite what Kipling said, and certainly not what he meant.

If, drunk with sight of power,

we loose Wild tongues that have not Thee in awe,

Such boastings as the Gentiles use,

Or lesser breeds without the Law

The "lesser breeds" in all likelihood referred to the Germans and other competitors in colonization, NOT to the natives. They were "lesser" because of their triumphalist boasting and "master race" ideas (which were already developing in Germany in 1897), not because of genetic inferiority or lower level of civilization.

Americans today could learn a lot from this poem, but probably not what most think. Certainly not that injustice to less powerful peoples is a good thing.

BTW, my suggestion of conquest and annexation was primarily in jest. I wouldn't really support such a thing at this time.