Monday, May 14, 2007

Iraq War -Going Forward

I can honestly say, unlike any congressman, senator or administration official, I do not know what the best approach is going forward for Iraq. Do we partition off into three sections? Should we continue with the same mission of 135,000-150,000 troops? Dare we increase the footprint up even higher despite the fact that the US Army can't continue maintaining the current levels without great strain? Do we cut and run? The Democrats will probably come up with the strategy of maintaining troops in safer locations inside Iraq or neighboring countries to be used when needed, but that is STUPID thinking. We can't really expect it to work without actually securing Iraq and mainly Baghdad. The plan would really put us back to where we are now. In the end, it may be solved by Iraqi lawmakers voting us out and we use that as a face saver. Everyone will still view the Iraqi effort by America as a failure despite this fact. We are looking at ways to influence the Iraqi politicians to make progress and perhaps a possible strong arm tactic would be to advise them that if they can't gain traction maybe the Kurds should take a larger role in the process. I know as soon as you think about the Kurds the next thought is of Turkey. Our hands are tied and we can't give more to the Kurds because we can't touch Turkey-right? The globalists want Turkey rolled into the EU and we can't upset the Turks. On the other hand, if the globalists are playing chess and if, they are 3-4 steps ahead: Kurds take greater role, Turks invade and claim greater Turkey (oil), when the dust settles they gain inclusion into the EU. I think I will stop right there before dwelling on what Iran and Saudi Arabia would do as that occurs. Anyways, that's more like rolling the dice as in the game of Risk.
For the record, I want America to take several steps back and start taking care of our own sovereignty. You may think that it's not in question, but you need to look at the big picture. I am not a fan of supporting huge lines of credit to third world nations under the guise of helping them. These countries end up in serious amounts of debt and the money hardly ever helps. If you want to help, give them grants or mind your own damn business! I support Ron Paul for President!