The Strategy for a Withdrawal from Iraq - A Fantasy

The United States is ready to enter into a multi-billion dollar sale of sophisticated and advanced military weapons to our friends Saudi Arabia. At the same time, we have confirmed "intelligence" that the Saudis are providing the Iraqi Insurgents with weaponry and funding allowing them to murder Americans and Iraqis while still remaining "moderates." How can you really oppose such beneficence?

It may sound dim-witted to you, and it is. Bur considering the entire state of affairs in the Middle East and Iraq you must be able to take a convoluted and unrealistic look at what is going on in the Middle East. But, first off, eliminate logic from the equation.

Create in your mind, if you will, that the United States must figure out a way to get our Forces out of Iraq in order to preserve Administration success in 2008 elections. We recognize, or better, we declare, as a fact, that there exists a civil war on the ground in Iraq. Further we decide that morality requires that we cannot take sides--thus enabling us to immediately withdraw and spread our forces to areas outside of Iraq. As a matter of fact, home would not be a bad idea.

This enables the Saudis to actually find themselves sending their own forces into Iraq to support the Sunnis instead using our Forces as their Hessians who the Saudis have declared are not legally in Iraq. The Iranians will have to enter on behalf of the Shiites. The Kurds probably will declare their independence and seek to consolidate with the Kurds in Turkey and Iran. One hell of a get-together.

So, you can see that it forces all parties to get involved Regionally to protect their interests and secure stability in the Middle East by themselves. Since the Iraqi Parliament is going on vacation, it is a perfect time to do it, since they won't be under any obligation to make decisions as to the future of Iraq.

Once all of this is in place, the United States would them immediately go before the United Nations Security Council and declare a serious problem exists in Iraq and in the Middle East requiring serious diplomacy and the probable intervention of the United Nations peacekeepers to prevent a global conflagration and to immediately take over control of all of the oil production and reserves. Sort of an expansion of a new oil for food concept.

By doing this, we return and become, once again, a responsible member of the world community driven to make for a better world. Or, to put it another way, the old saying is to do unto others as you would expect them to do unto you--but this time just let us have the opportunity of doing it first.