Thursday, March 15, 2007

A SOLUTION TO THE IRAQ WAR

A SOLUTION TO THE IRAQ WAR.

Greetings Readers, and as always, God Bless.
I have told a few people that this blog is up, and already people have asked me “Ok Mr. Correct Views, you are President of The Grand US of A….how do you handle Iraq?”
Plans to address that were on the table, after all this is the major issue of our time, still the readership is so very small that until it grows in this regard it seemed like a waste and that perhaps it was better to wait a bit until The Correct Views has grown some. After careful debate I have decided that there is no law saying that it can not be reposted yet (Congress will make one perhaps, so check before you take my word for it), so why not just address it. Fine, but there had better be some comments on it, I am playing my ace card a bit early….
but every deck has four aces, six if you play the jokers right.
Ok – Iraq. Let us forget before we begin “This war was right” and “This war was utter rubbish” and pretend that Mr. Samuel Di Gangi was elected today - as is- into the house of the blue dress and that now Iraq was up to “Mr. Correct Views” as I was called.
First of all, Iraq is split in threes: Kurds, Sunni, and Shiite. NO QUESTIONS ASKED.
Secondly, we take every healthy solider and place an equal (?) number in all three countries. If the solider is supposed to be sent home, he will be offered double pay for staying. If the solider chooses to not stay and is up to go home, he goes home. Again, NO QUESTIONS ASKED.
Point three would address the time table, and this is where I must confess that I am not solid on this, for I am not a general, so I do not pretend to be one. I would however surround myself with the best, brightest, most diverse minds in modern warfare and military know how (not just a handful of “yes-men”) to guide me in that decision. That is the best that I can say.
The fourth issue would involve civil war because I am not going to assume as President that they will all like the new sandbox and play nicely with one another. The troops are split into all three counties according to the layout of above mentioned military minds and myself, and then we begin “testing”. It would not be called “testing”, but whatever fancy title my spinsters gave to it, in the end it would boil down to testing. Issue four is handled as follows: Each country would have all of the forces that the USA and whatever poor allies we still have can offer, and they MUST build a force of police and military for themselves, and they must do it YESTERDAY! If they are building their forces, our help stays and helps. If on the other hand, a country falls into violence and chaos, then we will in fact LEAVE. Yes, we will LEAVE THEM because the people are NOT able or willing to police and defend themselves, they are not showing signs of unity, and we are not their country. We leave, for how often have we all heard the mantra that most of the Muslim faith is peaceful and able? Fine, that country will either unite and be so able or they can deal with the lack of unity. The innocents will have to rise up and not be bullied by the government that they elect. If they squander our help, they will loose it. What more can we give them?
To the government that did build, again, we help them defend any attacks from the other two, but not forever. Much of this will do with size and population.
Five is terrible. Five is why a lot of people may leave nasty messages for me in The Correct Views comment section because in the event that say the new Sunni country builds to such a degree that they are attacking the Kurds, the Shiite, and threatening the USA and Israel, then we act fast, with great force, and we leave. Gone.
Then we call the Air Force because the aggressor country must be attacking from somewhere. Let’s assume that the aggressive country had a handful of long or semi-long range weapons that we have picked up on satellite images, but other than that it seemed to be centered on the border of the people they are attacking with more conventional short range weapons. As President, I would order our jets to level the entire area that is attacking its neighbor. Any site that had larger weapons would have nothing but a pile of ash when the attack was done, not a missile tower any longer. I would order the whole section blasted to the point to where the other countries could then defend themselves proper from a future attack and they would be able to do it because of us.
Now…
All I ask is that if you, the faithful reader decide to send angry comments, I ask that you lay out where The Correct View is wrong. (or just rip me a new one, I don’t mind really).

6 comments:

LET'S TALK said...

We hear about how Clinton had a chance to get Osama bin Laden, but so did Bush.

In order to give this opinion correctly, one must first see: Afghanistan, then make his or her assumption about Iraq.

The Correct View said...

Greetings,
I shall read it, and thanks again for your time and readership. I was speaking in terms of if a person was to become President as is, today. Having said that, I will read your link for certain.
Lastly, I feel that the war could have gone MUCH better without the error of Rumsfeld.
Sam

Anonymous said...

this is very forceful. Do you then mean you would nuke the aggresive country? You would nuke a country as President?
Bill From Phil

The Correct View said...

Greetings Bill From Phil,
No, no not at all. Perhaps I could have penned that a tad clearer, but no. I am speaking of taking the area and making it a wasteland, not the city.
No need to poison the air, the lungs and organs, and lives destroyed by fall out cancer on the poor people. Never.
Sam

Snave said...

I think what Joe Biden has been talking about for a while, that is, partitioning Iraq into several separate countries, might not be a bad idea. I would be concerned about how Turkey would accept having a "Kurdistan" allowed to exist along its eastern border... but I think it would be an issue solvable with diplomacy. From what I understand, the Kurds are pretty much in control of their part of Iraq as things now stand.

I think the Kurds would be the one of the three new nations friendly to the U.S., and that the Sunni and Shia nations might not be our allies, they might fight with each other, and that Iran might step in and favor one over the other...

But even a situation such as that MIGHT be preferable to what is going on over there now... who knows!

2. I would guess there have been U.S. military bases built in enough areas of Iraq that troops could probably be stationed in equal numbers in the three new countries.

3. Timetables? This might be different in the different cases for each of the three new countries. But I agree, there should be stipulations set on how long we stay there, conditions made so the people there know we don't plan to stay there forever and it may come down to a "sink or swim" thing for them.

4. I believe that your approach is very sensible here. My guess? The three new nations might find themselves in sort of a competition with each other, with each one trying to become as strong or stronger than the other two. I believe this would lead to a willingness on the parts of all three nations to police themselves and keep order. I think things could calm down measurably in the region during a period while the new nations built themselves up. Thus, I think that through the partitioning of Iraq, it would allow our troops to leave sooner because the people of the new countries might be more willing to be trained and set up for success. We could give each of the new countries equal treatment, equal amounts of help, and work with Iran, Syria, Turkey, the Saudis, and all the nations in the region to approach the situation while taking in concerns of the entire region.

5. My concern would be that Iran would probably have undue influence over one of the nations, and might invade it or claim it as a protectorate or some such thing. I'm not sure we would see any of the three new nations fighting with each other as much as we might see Iran taking advantage and exerting influence. I wouldn't want to see the beginning of a "Persian empire" in the Middle East... And as much as I abhor violence, it might eventually have to come down to a situation such as you describe, in order to keep things in a situation of stasis, should the region calm down after a partition.

I don't think your ideas are bad at all. In fact, they demonstrate lots of thought on your part about the situation.

The Correct View said...

Greetings Snave,
There are holes in my plan, I make not lies up concerning that. I wish the country had more minds like OURS at work in it - we share a bit different viewpoints, but we could get some work done.
I like the KURD border remarks you made A LOT!
Sam