Send in more clowns
ZOMFG!You are achieving nothing in Iraq, not a damned thing, so your plan is to achieve double the nothing.
The problem with American "strategic thinking" is that the "thinking" is "throw a shitload of weaponry at it". That was the long and short of the Iraq plan. It worked to get rid of Saddam but surprise, surprise, that didn't fix Iraq. I daresay their plan for Iran is the same. It was the plan for World War II (worked), Korea (half worked), Vietnam (didn't work). Hang on, can we see a trend in these conflicts? Yes, we can. When fighting an enemy that stands up and allows itself to be shot, having more troops is generally the way to go. But when fighting one that is in any way more complex than that, you're stuffed.
The problem with Iraq remains not that there are militias but that there is no Iraq. Sending in more troops won't even begin to fix that. It'll simply mean more dead. The civil war is already happening and we're in it. Less people shooting would be a plus, not more.
posted by Dr Zen @ 12:39 pm
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