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Obama on Iraq

July 14, 2008 - 6:25 pm - by Richard Fernandez
Boghie
2008-07-15 12:31:02

I fully agree with Obama on withdrawing forces from areas of conflict.

But, I think it best to withdraw in order task ‘completion’.

There may be other arenas, but let us withdraw and surrender the following in the order presented:

Italy
France
Germany
Japan
South Korea
Anybody in Southeast Asia
Kuwait
Iraq
And then Afghanistan.

That way we can build on surrender retreat strategies with easy losses before we bail out in more challenging environments. If we practice a Surrendering Blitzkrieg in Italy, France, Germany, and Japan we may even be able to bail out of Afghanistan using air-lift capability only. Senator Obama, think through the issues of surrendering Afghanistan. I mean there aren’t too many friendlies in the area. Surrender will be a dangerous proposition with Afghan Warlords shooting at our helicopters and transports. I think Iraq would be a bit simpler, but I am certain the long trail of retreating Americans will revive the civil war – or whatever you call it in today’s speech. Save these valiant retreats until we build and train for them. Maybe new ‘weapons’ and tactics will be necessary. Maybe we could ‘surge’ troops experienced in Sun Tzu’s art of retreat into the region. Veteran Retreaters.

‘President’ Obama, it is hard for America to quit.

Baby steps – PLEASE!!!