A dignified exit strategy
According to reports, eleven Sunni insurgent groups (which apparently represent a majority of the insurgents in Iraq) have said they would agree to stop their attacks both on Iraqis and Americans if the Iraqis and the Americans would agree to a total withdrawal of foreign forces within two years.
How could anyone turn that down? Jeese, it would immediately stop the killing of our guys, it would give us two years to train the Iraqis and help them set up their government, and it would give us a dignified exit strategy for the first time.
So, what do the Bushies say? No way.
[Before I read the Rumsfeld comment, I was actually expecting Bush to accept the challenge. What could be better for his poll numbers and for the prospects for Republicans in 2006 and 2008 than to announce an end to hostilities and a mutually agreed upon exit strategy with a date certain, leaving behind a duly elected government semi-friendly to us?
Of course, I haven't heard Bush say anything yet. Maybe Karl Rove will get to him yet.]
How could anyone turn that down? Jeese, it would immediately stop the killing of our guys, it would give us two years to train the Iraqis and help them set up their government, and it would give us a dignified exit strategy for the first time.
So, what do the Bushies say? No way.
Could there be any clearer signal that Bush plans to be there forever? He wants a permanent military base on Iraqi soil.June 28 (Bloomberg) -- Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, asked about a report that Sunni insurgents have made a conditional offer to halt attacks in Iraq, said the U.S. won't set a timetable for withdrawing troops from the country.
The Associated Press today said 11 Sunni insurgent groups offered to stop attacks on U.S.-led military forces in Iraq if the Iraqi government and President George W. Bush set a two-year deadline for withdrawing all foreign troops.
[Before I read the Rumsfeld comment, I was actually expecting Bush to accept the challenge. What could be better for his poll numbers and for the prospects for Republicans in 2006 and 2008 than to announce an end to hostilities and a mutually agreed upon exit strategy with a date certain, leaving behind a duly elected government semi-friendly to us?
Of course, I haven't heard Bush say anything yet. Maybe Karl Rove will get to him yet.]
posted by walldon | 2:20 PM
1 Comments:
This proposal to stop the majority of resistence actions is close to my conclusions, set down to my comprehensive plan that you can view on my blog:
sevenpointman
But it's time-frame is to long and without any international supervision.
These two parameters could be worked out by the insurgencies and the occupying forces.
I would hope that the fruit of nearly 18 months of both secret and overt negotiations can help to alleviate a transistion to a terrorist free: both jihadists and American military, Iraq, that will form a democratic government.
But Bush doesn't seem to want this.
Time will tell if this proposal can be used to end this conflict.
I advise all those who want to deveop a strategy for peace to work with me to bring our president before the Hague on war crimes charges.
Maybe this will convince him it is time to withdraw.
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