IMO, Shrubbery simply wants the UN and Europe to come in and clean up the mess he's made. He can then turn around and BLAME THE UN if things continue to go awry.
IMO, Shrubbery-Cheney-Rove-Rummy are totally baffled about what to do with the Kurds, Sunis and, now, Shites. Remember, these are the guys who FAILED AT DIPLOMACY over and over and over again.
They can deal with others only if they can kill, wound or break something but not if they have to deal in a civilized manner. Pigs in a china shop.
Iranian pilgrims, once limited in number by a secular Saddam government, are now pouring into Iraq. Blogger Pax in Baghdad notes that there are now Ayatollah Khomeini posters for sale where there wouldn't have been any before. Ooops.
Shrubbery doesn't have a clue what to do. Bremmer seems on the verge of pulling out all that nice hair. Now the United States, that great unilateral power, is GOING BEGGING AGAIN to the UN, to NATO, to France, to Germany, to Canada, to Russia. What is this, the third time?
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