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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: longnshort who wrote (75332)	12/1/2006 8:22:58 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

Oh, in some alternate world, Einstein wrote a thesis debunking Darwin? Interesting!

To: longnshort who wrote (75332)	12/1/2006 8:26:11 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Respond to of 93284

Jacob Weisberg has about the most moronic suggestion for saving our ass in Iraq. For the more intensely military phase, the only real option is NATO. A NATO-led deployment in Iraq could follow the model of Afghanistan, where a 32,000-person NATO-plus-11 force is controlling an insurgency, sustaining a weak but viable government, and preventing multiparty civil war. This is precisely what needs to happen in Iraq. Oh yeah, like in Afghanistan! You know, this place: NATO's top commander in Afghanistan said Sunday the country was at a tipping point and warned Afghans would likely switch their allegiance to resurgent Taliban militants if there are no visible improvements in people's lives in the next six months. Gen. David Richards, a British officer who commands NATO's 32,000 troops here, warned in an interview with The Associated Press that if life doesn't get better over the winter, most Afghans could switch sides. "They will say, 'We do not want the Taliban but then we would rather have that austere and unpleasant life that that might involve than another five years of fighting,"' Richards said. Afghanistan is going through its worst bout of violence since a U.S.-led invasion removed the former Taliban regime from power five years ago. The Taliban has made a comeback in the south and east of the country and is seriously threatening Western attempts to stabilize the country after almost three decades of war. With great successes like these: Attacks have increased fourfold this year and 3,700 people have died, mostly in the south. The US has made 2,000 air strikes since June, against 88 in Iraq. Yeah, more of that in Iraq, please. Even more ignorantly, Weisberg calls for Turkish troops in Iraq, apparently unaware that this would most certainly trigger war with Kurdish Iraq. In fact, we may see Turkish troops in Iraq before long, not as part of a peacekeeping force, but an invasion to bring their hated Kurdish enemies to submission. He also has fantasies of Germany and France sending troops in. Because, well, just because he said so. [...] This is the crowd that Weisberg thinks will fantastically come up with the over 100,000 troops that will magically transform Iraq into a pro-Israeli pluralistic democracy? What, does he think the people of these nations will happily see their men and women in uniform sent into the Iraq meat grinder to try and save Bush's incompetent ass? Did Weisberg make any effort to gauge the viability of his plan, or did he just go with whatever he pulled out of his ass?