May 11, 2007
Mort Kondrake's Final Solution
Writing today at RealClearPolitics, Mort Kondrake's basic solution to the problems poised by the Iraq War is genocidally specific:
Without prejudging whether President Bush's "surge" policy will work, the administration and its critics ought to be seriously thinking about a Plan B, the "80 percent solution" - also known as "winning dirty." Right now, the administration is committed to building a unified, reconciled, multisectarian Iraq - "winning clean." Most Democrats say that's what they want, too. But it may not be possible.The 80 percent alternative involves accepting rule by Shiites and Kurds, allowing them to violently suppress Sunni resistance and making sure that Shiites friendly to the United States emerge victorious.
There is a certain simple genius to Kondrake's formulation.
If you don't like the problems poised by 20% of the population, simply eliminate the problematic population.
Allah tackles this "solution" as well.
Don't Plan B used to be call "fighting a war."
Posted by: Anh at May 11, 2007 12:42 PMWhat's a little genocide between friends? Its like doing your first serial killing. The first is tough, the rest are easy.
I've often said, once you give up on those quaint notions of integrity, all things become possible.
Posted by: Purple Avenger at May 11, 2007 01:00 PMThe only Plan B that works for me is making Plan A work. OTOH, maybe PA has a point; the world didn't stop turning after he Cambodian slaughter. Of course the Khmer Rouge didn't follow us home, either.
I added an excerpt and link to my 2007.05.11 Dem Perfidy // Islamism Delenda Est Roundup
Posted by: Bill Faith at May 11, 2007 03:44 PM
Ah yes, winning is always secondary to morality in the eyes of those who are not at risk nor have sacrificed anything. Let us maintain the mooral high ground as we retreat and proclaim our moral supremacy. That should safeguard us against the consequences of defeat at the hands of a foe who will neither accept civilization's views of morality nor accept anything less than the West's utter defeat and enslavement. We have our morality to keep us warm at night. I suspect this is what the French told themselves in 1940.
Posted by: Thomas Jackson at May 12, 2007 11:45 PMWhat are you complaining about? Kondracke is a right-of-centre slug that works for a Republican News Channel that likes to pretend to provide fairness and balance. For you to complain about what he has to say is similar to a child at the zoo screaming angrily at his parents that the monkey in the cage next to him isn't entertaining enough.
Posted by: Tom at May 15, 2007 03:06 PM
