Re: "Weekly Standard's hoped-for third war"
Last outpost of the 'know-nothing neo-cons', eh? <GGG>
A FAR BETTER policy choice (with MUCH HIGHER ODDS for SUCCESS, i.e., for the achieving of Western strategic goals of global Democracy and pluralism) would be for the U.S. to extricate itself from the middle of the Iraqi Civil War as FAST AS POSSIBLE.
Then, of course, what is already in motion would continue until it resolved itself: a proxy civil war between the Sunni Islamic nations (Saudi Arabia and it's W'habbist extremists / al Qaeda types, Pakistan, regressive Gulf monarchies, etc.) and the Shiite Islamic nations (Iran and it's radical Islamicists, the majority Shiite 'nation' of Iraq, minorities elsewhere, etc.)
It is also notable to mention that most of the oil rich Gulf nations (such as Saudi Arabia & Kuwait) are pumping oil from areas with downtrodden local Shiite majority populations....
Radicalism will be turned on radicalism (& AWAY from US!)... until the radicals on both sides are ultimately killed off, purged, discredited.
The long-delayed Islamic Reformation will finally be birthed.
... But I don't think these boys have the brains to realize what a gift that would be. |
