RE: Are any other ideas seriously being considered?
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Are any other ideas seriously being considered?
Nope. W's way or no way. Congress would have to cut funding to get real change, and they won't. Same old stay the course farce till 2008. And for those who say we haven't been attacked since 9-11, guess you forgot the DC sniper, and the attacks in Afghanistan by Al Qeada that have never stopped. We and our troops have been attacked on Bush's watch far more than we ever did on Clinton's watch. Yet Clinton still gets blamed while Bushy gets a free pass - not Bushy's fault, blame Clinton.,,,, whimps.
RE: Are any other ideas seriously being considered?
There is really nothing to change. We either back out and let the chips fall where they may or continue to try to train their forced to take over. We can't bargain with the terrorist because they have no leadership to whom they are responsible and we don't even know who they are. If someone really had a good idea that would work, I think Bush and everyone else would listen. While we are there, we are killing more terrorist.
I don't know where the next fight will take place but we will be at war with the extremist for decades to come. I don't blame clinton for anything except the messes he made on his own. There is no shortage of those.
RE: Are any other ideas seriously being considered?
I definitely feel that one of our problems in Iraq is that we consider too narrow a range of options. One option that I never here discussed is partioning Iraq -- for example into a Kurdish portion, a Sunni portion, and a Shiite portion. There are disadvantages to this option and some parties that strongly oppose this option (Turkey, for example, says it will not tolerate establishment of an independent Kurdish state -- like what the h3ll are they gonna' do about it if we decide to set it up, fight the US military?), but it is a fresh option with some attractive advantages. Other options exist that don't seem to be "on the table."
In the absence of doing something dramatically different, I believe it is just more of the same and we ought to pull out totally ASAP.
RE: Are any other ideas seriously being considered?
I can't see what good splitting the country up will do. The problem areas will still be problem areas. The options are darn few now that we are there. If need be we can do the draft and put 100,000 more troops there. It wouldn't last long then. We also need to put a screeching halt to the interference from Iraq's neighbors.
RE: Are any other ideas seriously being considered?
Like it or not, we are in a longterm war in general that started long before GW entered office. Trying to discuss a short-term solution to a "war" that our grandkids will likely still be fighting is old paradigm stuff.
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