Sometimes when watching a football game in which I don’t care who wins, I’ll root for the offense, because it makes the game more exciting. In Iraq, we’re fighting with the defense, whichever side is being attacked. One day we fight the Mahdi army, the next day to defend them from the Sunnis.

Since we’re on the subject of Iraq, I feel compelled to return to a point I’ve made several times. Bush’s crony contractors shortchanged the Iraqi security forces in order to line their own pockets. Now the president’s plan calls for our own forces to be embedded with the same units operating with antiquated weaponry and poorly armored vehicles. This issue is a time bomb that will detonate under the Republicans plan, unfortunately all too soon, because of unacceptable loss of American lives directly as a result of our own failures in “helping” Iraqi forces.

None of the groups (many of which form the government don’t forget) seem interested at genuine peace, only in an ebb and flow of violence in trying to gain the upper hand.

If e stay we probably get to fight both sides sooner or later with our logistics and all sorts of other key points stick in the middle of enemy territory. Dien Bien Phu seemed impossible not much earlier.

The jihadist never had concerns about dead Sunni. They are revolutiionaries of the absolutist model. It has been no secret that they wish to explode Iraq into religious war which wil bring in the Sunni nations in a cleansing war against Shia and subject the corrupt governments of Sunni nations to revolutionary forces.

Their primary desire is not and has never been to nuke New York with it’s reputation of lots of Jews (which is why Republicans and radical Muslims so hate it,) but to take over the middle east and the Islamic vastness, to position it as an empire, an empire based on purity of sdoul in which all secular humanism (something associated with Jews) is eliminated, something along the line of utopia as pictured by Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, Bill Bennett and other stalwarts of the Republican party. Major differences being that Islam does not argue that the poor are responsible for their condition and the minimum wage is in opposition to God’s will.