Iraq War Strategy

There's a great comment to the notice that we are going to be negotiating with the terrorists at The War in Context:

Let's call this plan "C". Then there's plan "H" -- a plan to internationalise the Iraq crisis, as reported to the Guardian's Simon Tisdall by a "former official, who is familiar with administration thinking." Then there's plan "A" -- again, Tisdall was all ears (but none of the analysis he's generally good at, perhaps because what he was being told wouldn't hold up to analysis) when he listened to a US official tell him that "Iran is secretly forging ties with al-Qaida elements and Sunni Arab militias in Iraq in preparation for a summer showdown with coalition forces." Then there's plan "O" -- a covert "black" operation to destabilize the Iranian government whispered to ABC's Blotter. And to round everything off, we have plan "S" -- "the business of supporting the Sunnis anywhere we can against the Shia," according to Seymour Hersh. Put all these plans together and you get a unified approach to the Middle East: C-H-A-O-S.

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.