(1) Send more troops (maybe 50,000 more) purely for peacekeeping and to protect the troops already there.
(2) Train 25,000 of those soldiers (special forces, actually) *ONLY* on the local Arabic language, Iraqi customs and Iraqi culture. Their task is to establish rapport with the locals and soften the effect of our presence.
(3) Stop building schools, etc… That’s not the job of the military.
(4) Open up dialog with every nation in the Middle East. Find out what each entity wants and use that as leverage.
(5) Have the Bush Administration issue a formal or informal apology to the nations involved and interfered with. Stop protecting any U.S. businesses and corporations that are there - These corporations can buy their own private protection or leave.
(6) Aim to leave in 3 years. The special forces are to soften the effect of leaving and soften the effect of our presence. If this is successful, we may not need to leave.
(7) Leave religion out of the equation and stop talking about democracy. It’s not our place to determine what is best for them, or to shove it down their throats even if we were right. Nevertheless, the special forces can use psychological tactics to encourage the spread of democracy (but more importantly to reduce friction between factions and enable an atmosphere of peace).
(8) Find a compromise between the different factions involved. This should be enabled by the special forces aforementioned and encouraged, not forced onto.
It took me a few minutes to write this up. Surely our leaders can do better.
April 17th, 2007
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VoiceOfReason |
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I get the feeling you readers out there don’t all like my ideology. Of course that is to be expected since I am a neoconservative, the true and only principle based ideology (not to be confused with neonazi.)
Anyway, to make the Spin Factor as Fair and Balanced as possible I offer the following: Don’t like my ideology? I’ll adopt yours! Are you an Al-Qaeda leader lacking good writing skills? I’ll help you out (but don’t tell Bush, I don’t want to be put on a no-fly list). Are you a liberal like Clinton in need for some love? I’ll write a personal ad for you and find you a cute intern.
Of course, you may not agree with me, but I certainly agree with you.
Ahmadinejad, I’ve almost finished your article on Why we need to adopt nuclear energy and stop worrying.
And Saddam, I almost finished writing Why I shouldn’t be hanged today - but I had some trouble with adjectival phrases that day, plus Bush needed a one-liner on what he would do that day (”I decided to go to sleep early and didn’t watch the execution”) and it was really hard to write. Then again, I’m still working on it. I know you are dead already, but maybe Bush will regret hanging you when he reads it: Here is an excerpt:
And that, fellow world citizens, is why my life should be spared. Nevertheless, I have some confessions to make in case I die:
To George Bush Senior: Love, I’m sorry I couldn’t quit you. I’m sorry you cheated on Barbara because of me. Maybe this hanging is what I deserve for letting you commit such a beautiful sin. The thing with Donald Rumsfeld was just a fling - I never loved him. I hope you can forgive me someday.
To George Bush Junior: I’m sorry you could never love me as a step-father. I tried. I really did. I never told you this, but when I was dating your father I always fantasized about you and I. And sometimes Bill O’Reilly, too. There’s just something manly and Irish about him.
To all Iraqi citizens: [This is where I left off… sorry Saddam].
As you can see, you need to submit your requests on time. I get calls from Castro everyday and he takes up a lot of my time. He is always babbling on about how his own doctors can’t keep him alive and how he wants me to take over Cuba in his place. But I declined. Here is my letter to Fidel:
It would have been a great honor to serve this nation again. But after thoughtful discussions with people both in and outside of this administration, I concluded that the current Havana decision-making process lacks a linkage to a broader view of the region and how the parts fit together strategically.
I know it sounds a lot like John H. Sheehan’s article, Why I declined to serve (but everyone needs a ghost writer, right?) John H. Sheehan is my ghost writer. He just doesn’t know it.
So if there’s an article you heroes want me to write, I want to write it. 5/4 dictators recommend my services (Bush is the fifth, but he declined to be included).
April 17th, 2007
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eaglescout |
Al-Qaeda, Journalism, Satire, Liberals, Neoconservatives, Terrorism, Democrats, Truth |
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