[JohnGalt]

It seems to me that the best plan would be to carve up Iraq and 'help' install tribal kings that would be accepted by the people if we could find any royal blood lines. But what Jonah does not talk about is the Halliburton ain't going to rebuild Iraq unless there are US troops stationed at the critical points and administering a socialist state. (Rather like what our troops in Afghanistan are doing right now administering the return of a narco-state.)

Thus socialism is really the only tie that binds Iraq; that and some farming by the Kurds who look like the could sustain themselves on their own but that would not make the Turks or Iranians too happy.

Whatever the case, I will pull out my copy of "Heart of Darkness" and remind myself how this story ends...

[Burkeman1]

Well we are there and we should strive for an "out" that will do the most justice to the Iraqis while minimizing our involvement. I don't have the answer. But Goldberg's flippant, and frankly, silly school boy suggestion that we build a Switz canton system magically is just astounding. Oh really Jonah? Why not do that everywhere? What a genius! If only the British and Russians thought of that! Idiots and half educated dimwits write for NR nowadays.