Justin Raimondo
The administration, having abandoned the "moderate" secular Sunnis, represented by Iyad Allawi (remember him?), is now taking up the Shi'ite cause with a vengeance. This new turn is carefully clothed in the white raiment of non-sectarianism, but if I were a Sunni living in Iraq – and particularly in Baghdad – I would run for the exits while there's still time. As Bush puts it:
"Only the Iraqis can end the sectarian violence and secure their people. And their government has put forward an aggressive plan to do it. Our past efforts to secure Baghdad failed for two principal reasons: There were not enough Iraqi and American troops to secure neighborhoods that had been cleared of terrorists and insurgents, and there were too many restrictions on the troops we did have."
After all, why shouldn't we go storming into private homes, shoot first, and ask questions later, just like we did in Haditha? All those bothersome restrictions – e.g. morality, law, and everything that elevates us above the jungle floor – really put a crimp in our sails. But no more! We've only killed – according to some estimates – between 50,000 and 650,000 Iraqis. Let's start ramping those numbers up: then the "metrics" so beloved by Rummy will begin to chart an uptick in our fortunes.
The administration, having abandoned the "moderate" secular Sunnis, represented by Iyad Allawi (remember him?), is now taking up the Shi'ite cause with a vengeance. This new turn is carefully clothed in the white raiment of non-sectarianism, but if I were a Sunni living in Iraq – and particularly in Baghdad – I would run for the exits while there's still time. As Bush puts it:
"Only the Iraqis can end the sectarian violence and secure their people. And their government has put forward an aggressive plan to do it. Our past efforts to secure Baghdad failed for two principal reasons: There were not enough Iraqi and American troops to secure neighborhoods that had been cleared of terrorists and insurgents, and there were too many restrictions on the troops we did have."
After all, why shouldn't we go storming into private homes, shoot first, and ask questions later, just like we did in Haditha? All those bothersome restrictions – e.g. morality, law, and everything that elevates us above the jungle floor – really put a crimp in our sails. But no more! We've only killed – according to some estimates – between 50,000 and 650,000 Iraqis. Let's start ramping those numbers up: then the "metrics" so beloved by Rummy will begin to chart an uptick in our fortunes.
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