December 9, 2006
REMEMBER WHY SADDAM HAD TO GO?:
Iraq Strategy Review Focusing on Three Main Options (Robin Wright and Peter Baker, 12/09/06, Washington Post)
The major alternatives include a short-term surge of 15,000 to 30,000 additional U.S. troops to secure Baghdad and accelerate the training of Iraqi forces. Another strategy would redirect the U.S. military away from the internal strife to focus mainly on hunting terrorists affiliated with al-Qaeda. And the third would concentrate political attention on supporting the majority Shiites and abandon U.S. efforts to reach out to Sunni insurgents.
Given that it was a war of Shi'a liberation, the choice isn't that tough, though they don't seem in any way to be mutually exclusive. Posted by Orrin Judd at December 9, 2006 8:38 AM
Comments
Why not do all three?
Posted by: pj at December 9, 2006 10:01 AMSunni fears ... masked by their silly and vicious bravado ... have become a self-fulfilling prophecy. So far, they have earned their fate. Perhaps the hanging of Saddam will belatedly wise them up.
Posted by: ghostcat at December 9, 2006 2:49 PM