Neocons' new plan for Iraq: Crush the Sunnis

[quaoar]

This is from the executive director of PNAC, who is saying that a political solution in Iraq is hopeless now.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/12/AR2005091201461.html

Contrary to most commentary, then, the key to succeeding in Iraq is no longer putting in place a grand political bargain in which Iraqis of all sectarian stripes live happily ever after. In fact, by suggesting that this is the goal, we probably have fueled the Sunnis' own misperception of their future status in Iraq and hardened their own position.

The goal, of course, is to create a political order by which Iraq is made relatively stable and the normal democratic politics of give-and-take are made possible. But that will be a decidedly uphill struggle until the prospect of a successful insurgency is taken off the table and the Sunni Arabs come to the understanding that the new constitution is, in practice, a pretty good deal after all.

Politics cannot solve what ails Iraq now. It can help, and certainly the constitution is an important step in that direction. But at the end of the day, it's only when the so-called dead-enders are either dead or vanquished that one can count on the political process moving decisively forward as most Iraqis desire.

The writer is executive director of the Project for the New American Century, a Washington-based think tank.

[applegrove]

1. I wish they'd just followed UN procurement laws and kept Sunnis busy

bidding on contracts. The real contracts.

[FreedomAngel82]

2. When did they ever care?

All they wanted was oil and power. They never cared at all about the country and citizen's. It's all PR.

[DemInDistress]

3. it wont be long now...

the insurgents are in their last throes,pay no attention to that attack yesterday where 150 died 200 wounded.These Iraqi's will get
Democracy even if it means killing thousands of people.Dead enders
my ass,the freedom fighters lack heavy armament so suicide bombers do
an equally good job as a tank shell or 500 lb bomb dropped on innocent
homes with people living inside..Yes,any day now the war will end.

[LittleClarkie]

4. We can have true democracy as soon as the opposition is dead

Batshit crazy.

[Lexingtonian]

5. F-ing moron of a writer

This idiot now realizes yet another thing we told his partners in crime in 2002. Yay, he gets it now. And still the putz thinks he's got the one and only great idea to fix the problem.

I can tell him the predicted and obvious and only solution is not more American involvement. It's Iraqi civil war.

That'll be $50,000, Gary. Send me an email and I'll give you an account number to send the money to. You'll be getting off cheap, trust me.

[quaoar]

7. Suppose Gary has any

children of military age?

[still_one]

6. maybe the administration doesn't realize that 2/3 of the muslim population

in the world is Sunni

[Ioo]

8. Blogged...

http://www.bushsamerica.com/index.php/2005/09/15/new_iraq_war_destroy_the_sunnis_for_not_

[OneTwentyoNine]

9. Great....a War within a War

PNAC is just now figuring out how bad THEY fucked up that country?

[GaYellowDawg]

10. Mein Kampf redux

it's only when the so-called dead-enders are either dead or vanquished that one can count on the political process moving decisively forward as most Iraqis desire.

Substitute "Jews" for "so-called dead-enders" and "Germans" for "Iraqis" and Hitler might as well have written this. In fact, let's try just that:

it's only when the Jews are either dead or vanquished that one can count on the political process moving decisively forward as most Germans desire.

And neocons wonder why we call them Nazis?!?

[Roland99]

11. While it's true the insurgency is a "dead ender", this writer's hubris is

sickening.