USViking
VIP Member
A half-serious paraody occurrs to me that the best way
out of the mess in Iraq might be this: reinstate Saddam
and the Baathist party to power, subject to the dicatates
of a US High Commission.
Of the hundreds of thousands of former Baathist military,
police and administrative personnel there should easliy be
enough to cement authority with US backing.
We could set them up, and give them a green light to hang
every dissident on the spot from the nearest lamp post.
Order might well be attained within a few months.
Of course in return for the favor of US sponsorship, our new
Baathist friends might do us such favors as flooding the market
with OPEC-undercutting oil.
And on down the road we could back the new Iraqi army in a
new invasion of Iran, siezing Irans oil-producing terrirtory,
and rendering the Ayatollah crackpots too impoverished to
proceed with their nuclear WMD schemes.
I would hate giving up on the humanitarian aspect of our
involvement in Iraq, but it simply is not working, so the best
alternative is an iron boot.
The parody above is half-serious in that it might eventually
be necessary to adopt such policies and methods to cope
with an intractible reality.
The Third World has in the 40-50 years of its independence
of the West given evidence of the literal truth of the words
of the old imperialist Poet Laureate Rudyard Kipling: they are
Half devil and half child.
It would be better to impose a regime of neocolonialism on
these devils children that to have them drag us down with
them in the whirlwinds of fire forever issuing from their devils playground.
out of the mess in Iraq might be this: reinstate Saddam
and the Baathist party to power, subject to the dicatates
of a US High Commission.
Of the hundreds of thousands of former Baathist military,
police and administrative personnel there should easliy be
enough to cement authority with US backing.
We could set them up, and give them a green light to hang
every dissident on the spot from the nearest lamp post.
Order might well be attained within a few months.
Of course in return for the favor of US sponsorship, our new
Baathist friends might do us such favors as flooding the market
with OPEC-undercutting oil.
And on down the road we could back the new Iraqi army in a
new invasion of Iran, siezing Irans oil-producing terrirtory,
and rendering the Ayatollah crackpots too impoverished to
proceed with their nuclear WMD schemes.
I would hate giving up on the humanitarian aspect of our
involvement in Iraq, but it simply is not working, so the best
alternative is an iron boot.
The parody above is half-serious in that it might eventually
be necessary to adopt such policies and methods to cope
with an intractible reality.
The Third World has in the 40-50 years of its independence
of the West given evidence of the literal truth of the words
of the old imperialist Poet Laureate Rudyard Kipling: they are
Half devil and half child.
It would be better to impose a regime of neocolonialism on
these devils children that to have them drag us down with
them in the whirlwinds of fire forever issuing from their devils playground.
