The New Policy
Nov 30th, 2005 at 9:39 am by Susie
Here’s the shiny new and improved Iraq policy Bubble Boy will announce later today. It sounds more like one of those marketing-strategy rollouts, though. I wonder why?
Like most marketing plans, it sounds suspiciously like a wishful-thinking list. “And then we’ll have enough money for a pony!”
UPDATE: Matt checks in with his take:
… Iraq can’t both be a sovereign country and have its long-term policies determined in Washington. What if Iraq doesn’t want to be a partner in the fight against the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction? How is Iraq supposed to be united if Iraq’s Kurdish population doesn’t want it to be united? How are we supposed to force Iraq’s rulers to govern the country “justly?” And most of all, what about having 100,000+ soldiers and Marines running around the country hunting down bands of insurgent fighters is supposed to achieve any of this? There’s a glaring disconnect between the goals of this enterprise, which all have to do with the nature of Iraqi politics and society, and the means at our disposal, which all have to do with killing people and blowing stuff up.
