Okay. It's a tiring night, and I have to stay up a little longer than I would like because of clothes washing.
So... just this once, I decided, I'm going to let the hard ass part of me loose and develop an answer to the War on Terror with a possible thought on dealing with Iraq.
The current administration and the Pentagon has a problem.
It got slapped by a bunch of terrorists and decided to use the same old tactics that the military has used time and again.
Invade a given run of countries, occupy it to pacify it, failing miserably because the working military has never been seriously invaded before so it doesn't comprehend what will happen when you invade another country.
Well, it doesn't comprehend it if you've never served before and are just sitting behind a desk playing with army toys to prove that a business model can run a war. (Hint, War get's it's unique reputation because it's war, not a business. Got that Mister Rumsfeld? Didn't think so.)
So, since I have never been to war, nor have I ever run a million dollar corporation, and am merely a blue collar worker in a warehouse, I figure, any idea I come up with might as well be said and tossed into the fires of late night growlings.
One: Pull out of Iraq
Two: Pull back into United States borders
Three: Rebuild all CIA, FBI, and a unified Intelligence gathering source, tapping into Interpol and allied intelligence services. Oh and not just a few billion here and there, but serious level rebuilding with the best experts from through out the world. If we're going to play on the international level, let's be international.
Four: While this is going on, rebuild our Special Operations forces, focus on intelligence gathering equally to killing force capabilities. That's to make certain that we can cut down on our stupid mistakes. (Civilian weddings are a really bad place to shoot up... what happens if it were our own this happens too.).
Five: Come back out with full intent and openess of going in, identifying every terror cell and deal with them once and for all.
Six: Do this so blatantly and openly that we really DO become the people the terrorist are afraid of. (Because right now, they aren't too afraid of us... we're helping them in recruitment for crying out loud.((Come to Iraq! Kill an American soldier, now two for the price of none!Yeesh...)
Seven: Work with the United Nations, but make it deadly clear, no more terrorism. Define it in a clear cut manner. (The other countries out there up until Bush were quite happy to see us take up the arms and go play killers in the trouble spots, well we'll do it. We do have plenty of people who like the idea of fighting in war. They just want to know that it has a serious purpose, not just some guy's political ploy to stay in power).
Eight: We go in to any country, as is the mandate set forward, and we take out the terrorists.
Nine: Then we leave. No, "helping" to rebuild.
Ten: If it's a leader, we tell the people of that country, "You elected a terrorist. Here's the proof. Accept, don't accept it. You elect someone who sees humanity as pawns to kill in some 'game', it ends in the same way. No more games."
(Like I said, I'm being a hard ass here.)
Eleven: Deal with Russia and China and develop a trinity of power on that one point. No more terrorism. Maybe even get a (gasp!) coalition that means something.
Twelve: Switch over to home fuels. Globalism only works when there's equal footing. At the rate we're going, that footing is not equal in terms of manufacturing and developing of technologies and sciences.
There, that's it. No more for now.
Have at it people. Rip it apart. Add to it. Let it die an ignoble death if you wish.
But... like I said. It's a rant.