Well, since I'm not part of the Government, and don't have my own army, I guess I'll have to sit this one out.
Send in 10 more batallions, and crush the terrorists into dust.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/iraq/iraq_strategy_nov2005.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_Security_Force
Why should we do anything? The UN has everything under control. Hell I never like going to bed without any dinner. Sure did teach me a lesson.
fricken zoomies.
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Open up a can of U.S. whoop ass like we used to do.
Ping!
Feel free to ping anyone you want, I want this to be a big thread.
Move all of our bases in Saudi Arabia to Iraq, and tell the House of Saud to "F Off!"
Kick the hell out of Syria and Iran.
Let them kill each other, while we loom like vultures on the sidelines from Kuwait and Saudi. With our military, invading the country is the easy part. Terrorists try to set up camp or install a hostile government, we smack them down in 48 hours. 2 hours if we only need to flatten the country from air.
They want to stop the killing, they have to learn to live with each other. If they can't manage to do that, they're responsibile for building their own hell. We've spent long enough hand-holding and babysitting.
I sell tires for a national distributor.
I haven't the slightest clue about foreign policy. I have no idea what should be done.
I don't expect the President to tell me how to sell tires, so I don't tell him how to run a country.
bomb everyone and let god sort it out
Read the riot act to Syria and Iran -- hit them hard if they don't comply.
My original contention was that we should have approached the reluctant "allies" like the French to send in Police forces for the occupation after battle, since they were so unwilling to engage in the fighting. It was easy to see that we'd need as many folks in police and nurse's uniforms as we would in US Army unitorms in order to establish a democracy in the middle east. But, since we didn't follow that line of approach, we now have a civil war on our hands. If we were to set our sights again on the police/nurse approach, we might still be able to pull this one off. I think we won the war in Iraq; we just haven't won the peace.
I also think we should simply divide the country. The Kurds deserve their own country, they've proven to be good allies. We could work with them to carve out a section of Iraq, set their sights on carving some territory out of Iran, and then when they're done with that, we can help "negotiate" with our other "allies", the Turks, to secure Kurdish autonomy in what presently eastern Turkey.
That leaves the Sunnis and Shiites to divide up what's left. We would occupy the areas between the two warring factions. Also, the UN/US should occupy the oil-producing regions and parcel out the revenue according to whatever plan they come up with. That gives all the sides something to argue about rather than shooting at us.
Flush!
Osama admits that hundreds, if not thousands, of terrorists have infiltrated Iraq from all over the Middle East - World to stop us from winning in Iraq.
With such a "Target Rich" zone of combatants, I think we should admit the ineveitable civilian casualties, pull our troops out, and just "Nuke it from orbit - it is the only way to make sure."
We send the US troops to guard the borders, particularly to prevent the influx of more terrorists from Iran and Syria, then turn to the government in Baghdad and say we are doing our part, now you get control over the situation.
it's already decided - the Democrats are in control of handling the withdrawal now and will be for the near future. Iraq will ally with Iran and face off against the Saudis in a few years.
Sell it on eBay.