My Bro Corb |
I often gage how Americans, who care, view our foray into Iraq by talking to my brother, Corb. He is always a little to the right of Attila the Hun.
When Iraq first began, he was like many Americans who believed what was said by our leaders: there were weapons of mass destruction; we can't have a policy of containment; we have get Saddam quickly because time is running out.
Well, guess what! My brother Corb says it is time to get the hell out of Iraq. "We have mismanaged this war so much; we need to simply leave and let them kill each other. We cannot reason with fanatics and it is costing us too much in terms of our boys."
My brother Corb is a two time vet. He was in the Army as a sixteen year old and later as a draftee assigned to Europe. But, if he feels this way, are even the most hard core supporters of our policies far behind? I don't think so!
We Still Do Not Have a Strategy
Any business person knows: "If you keep doing the same thing expecting different results, you are bound to fail." It is what we continue to do in Iraq. In fact, recently, the Pentagon announced that we are continuing the exact type of rotation in Iraq as we did in Vietnam using conventional soldiers. IT IS IRAQNAM REVISITED
We must change our strategy to have any chance at all. We cannot beat these people. As my brother Corb., says, "How can you best fanatics who kill themselves, their own families, their own countrymen?" Corb feels it is a religious war and I think he is mostly right. We are in denial on this: the five million radical Muslims, whomever they might be, have an absolute belief toward killing infidels. We cannot beat them.
Here Is a Strategy
AP Photo-1st Lt. Nathan Braden/HO | We should position ourselves to have about 50,000 Special Forces/Operation troops in Iraq, along with about an equal number of mercenaries.
The mercenaries are already there but are called private security forces. The Green berets and security forces should get out of all the garb the conventional soldiers wear and act like the insurgents: vicious, stealth, and Clint Eastwood in Unforgiven- "If you don't give Ned a proper burial, I'm coming back and I'm going to kill you, your family and burn your house down." Does this sound radical? It is 10 times better than having no strategy.
Having Special Ops as the majority of troops serving in Iraq would insure that we have that "soldier element" of our society that live to make war and understand the dangers. They are affectionately known as "snake eaters," older, like the mercenaries, who are mostly "ex-snake eaters" themselves. With this strategy, we need to plan to stay indefinitely; forget leaving and suck it up.
THE QUESTION: What would my brother Corb thinks of this strategy?
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