The Ranter’s Strategy

The Ranter’s Strategy

We are so bogged down in the mess that we created in Iraq that no one has any idea what to do to salvage the situation. I have been giving a lot of thought to this and have a few ideas, concepts and suggestions that perhaps between Wild Bill and I we can either make sense out of or simply forget about them.

We first entered Iraq with a classic General Patton attack plan, bypass the hotspots, perform end runs and deal with the hot situations after the city was taken. Our military performed as the true professionals they are and the tanks entered Baghdad as the Iraqi spokesmen was explaining to the cameras how their military had beat us back. Great television moment and he has never been seen again.

The Iraqi people loved us, throwing flowers, tearing down statues of Saddam and open celebration in the streets. Then reality sets in, we, the infidels are not only at the gate, we are on their soil. Of course, our answer is to get their government kick started into high gear and begin training their military and police. Then one of our special teams finds Saddam hiding in his hole and more celebration. At that point, reality sets in all around, what do we do now?

Point one: The Iraqi people have forgotten one basic rule of war and our military, let alone our politicians have never bothered to mention it to them. They are a conquered nation, they only have the rights and privileges we allow them to have and the government we are allowing them to put together.

Point two: We decide what is going to work and what is not going to work and we decide when our military attacks strongholds and takes out their bad guys, not their religious leaders or the government who tend to be part of the problem, not the solution.

Instead, we sit back and listen to their religious leaders and our politicians shake their collective heads wondering what to do, my gosh, we cannot go against their religion, what if this turns into a crusade, what do we do then?

Point three: That thinking has to be thrown out the window and we need to do something we have yet to do, turn our dogs of war lose and allow them to get the job done for the last time. We need to reinforce the Marines in the Sunni Triangle, removing the insurgents and bringing peace to the people. We need to seal the borders and stop the insurgents and murdering scum as they are running away and remove them from every part of the nation. We need to remove every hotheaded religious leader who is leading uprisings and we can do this because, they are a conquered nation and we set the rules, not them.

Point four: Once the nation is secure, we can install their government and put them on the path to peace, this worked in Japan and Germany, yet due to religious views, we are so far lost in the political correct bull of the present that we have lost our way. We also need to understand their way of life and if their government requires religious leaders as part of it then so be it, but we decide, not them.

Point five: We are standing between two warring religious sects who have been at odds since the dawn of their religion and we wonder why they are fighting. The Iraqi people do not understand or comprehend peaceful solutions, they understand violence and being made to tow the line and if that is what we need to do then we need to do it now. They only understand this because it has been their way of life since the dawn of man and they teach it to their children. We cannot win their hearts and minds; they hate us and only hear what they want.

Point six: We have to stop worrying about the word “Crusade”, the only people using it is their religious leaders and we need to remove them from the safety of their little hiding spots.

If we do not do something to this effect then the brave men and women of our military, who have paid the ultimate price has done so for nothing.

We need to be the ruling country that we are and turn this debacle into something good, if we do not then we have truly lost our way.