tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16816866.post116452869087879538..comments2024-02-29T02:10:56.878-08:00Comments on J O S H U A P U N D I T: `Find the right partner' in IraqFreedom Fighterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13649470110087808596noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16816866.post-1164616608292092972006-11-27T00:36:00.000-08:002006-11-27T00:36:00.000-08:00`Insanity can be defined as doing the same thing o...<I>`Insanity can be defined as doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.<BR/><BR/>`kay?'</I><BR/><BR/>'kay!Clovis Sangrailhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05374140845707202168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16816866.post-1164610226349140962006-11-26T22:50:00.000-08:002006-11-26T22:50:00.000-08:00(a)Iraq ALREADY is a bloodbath(b) It is not our jo...(a)Iraq ALREADY is a bloodbath<BR/><BR/>(b) It is not our job to `partition' Iraq.And at any rate, it's too late to do so.<BR/><BR/>(c) unless we're willing to depose the Maliki government, forcefully confront Iran and Syria and destroy the Shiite militias the Shiite portions of Iraq and the Sunni triangle are going to be taken over by Iran and Syria anyway..either now, as we reform our lines in Kurdistan, ally with the Kurds and put our bases there or later,when the Iran proxy government tells us to leave so they can bond with their jihad buddies.<BR/><BR/>(d) The only reason for us to be in Iraq is a strategic one, with a pro-US government backing us and aligning with us against Iran.<BR/><BR/>Since none of that happened, and the present Iraqi government has said it NEVER will, I suggest we redeploy to a place where we'd be welcomed with open arms and still maintaina strategic base against Iran and Syria.<BR/><BR/>Insanity can be defined as doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.<BR/><BR/>`kay?<BR/><BR/>ffFreedom Fighterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13649470110087808596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16816866.post-1164596830418885212006-11-26T19:07:00.000-08:002006-11-26T19:07:00.000-08:00Redeploy to Kurdistan...and have the rest of Iraq ...Redeploy to Kurdistan...and have the rest of Iraq become a bloodbath? Even if we seperated Iraq into 3 sections, and after the bloodshed that would follow as the minority group in each one was moved out, there would be nothing stopping a Taliban style type of regime taking over the Sunni or Shiite sections, helped by Iran and Syria of course. And let's not forget Baghdad, which is mixed between Sunnis and Shiites. How do you partition a place like that?<BR/><BR/>For better or for worse, we're stuck in Iraq for the near future.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16816866.post-1164534064878737572006-11-26T01:41:00.000-08:002006-11-26T01:41:00.000-08:00Hello, Canker!Nice to hear from you.If as he sugge...Hello, Canker!<BR/>Nice to hear from you.<BR/><BR/>If as he suggests, the US ousts Iraq's pro-Iranian Shiite government and attempts toinstall what he calls `the right partner', the Shiites will rise up en masse against the `occupiers'.<BR/><BR/>Actually, Chalbi would have been a good choice for the interim Iraqi leadership, but he was not well liked by the American State Department establishment.<BR/><BR/>At this point, I'm afraid that the Shiite portion of Iraq is indeed a lost cause, unless the Iraqi people decide otherwise,which is unlikely with Iran stirring the pot.<BR/><BR/>Our best bet is to throw in with the Kurds so as to maintain a strategic base there.<BR/><BR/>All Best,<BR/>FFFreedom Fighterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13649470110087808596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16816866.post-1164530818303410682006-11-26T00:46:00.000-08:002006-11-26T00:46:00.000-08:00Freedom Fighter,My heart hopes desperately, for pe...Freedom Fighter,<BR/>My heart hopes desperately, for people like Omar, that you're wrong in your analysis. I fear (on the basis of what I read, since I'm no expert) that his analysis concurs with yours and that, even were Maliki's crew of cutthroats and Iranian puppets ousted, there is no credible alternative.Clovis Sangrailhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05374140845707202168noreply@blogger.com