What If....

[JoeContrarian]

Please. How about "What if" I had a magic wand and said: I am going to make you a person who becomes captured by the enemy...

Would you rather have your captors be US Troops or Al-Queda?

Our "Torture" of 3 squares a day and freedom to their wacked job Religion, doesn't compare to being brutalized and then Beheaded does it?

Nothing like a bucket of freezing arctic water to expose the insanity of liberal moral equivalency. While America's soldiers make due with c-rations fighting these jihadist savages in the middle-east, the average terrorist has gained 18 lbs since arriving at <st1:City w:st="on"><st1lace w:st="on">Guantanamo</st1lace></st1:City>. A typical menu consist of, Orange-glazed chicken, fresh fruit crepe, steamed peas and mushrooms, and rice pilaf.

(http://www.house.gov/hasc/pressreleases/2005/GTMO-menu.pdf)

The menu reads like the sort of thing you'd get at Windows on the World in the WTC — if it still existed.

 

[xpanda]

Sadly Im sure there is a tape of this and Im sure its going to be released to the media.

You're probably right. I hope (I really do) that the horrible things done to these two were done after they died, and isn't on tape. I can't imagine being family to these soldiers, a tragedy made a thousand times worse by a videotape.

...the civilians the insurgency murders are the ones that drive the country to rebel against being taken over by terrorists.

The 'insurgency' and the 'terrorists' aren't really the same people. They may make alliances where it suits them, but they have different goals, ultimately. And the Sunnis revile the Wahhabists, generally. My understanding is that most of the suicide bombings in Iraq are by Sunnis (against the Shiia) and not by Wahhabis. But you're right: targetting civilians (Shiias) only leads to rebellion. So you end up with civilian-on-civilian ground warfare.

The clear end in sight is in the numbers: the Shiia vastly outnumber the Sunnis.

If the country ends up split into regions, based on reglious persuasion, it will probably be for the best. They may need to agree on some kind of equalisation plan, because of disparity in oil reserves among the regions, but it might be the only workable short-term solution to quiet the place down. From there they can get on with the business of looking after their business.