A terrible engine

Okay, so let's suppose that the war in Iraq actually is NOT supposed to end...

Y'with me?


San Diego Union-Tribune http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20041210/news_1n10armor.html

What if, the plan is actually to create a magnet for young islamic hotheads. The fodder that Al Quaida recruits for its forces. The draw of actually getting at Americans being too strong to resist, Iraq sucks young Islamic hotheads from all over the middle east, across its borders.

The borders, by the way, remain conveniently porous for some odd reason. Just as an aside, the U.S. has a lot of experience maintaining a conveniently porous border, right here at home. So we know how to do that pretty well.

Once there, the young hotheads receive some slight training from experts. The Americans are running around in convoys on the back roads, and so are exposed and easy targets. The young hotheads get to practice blowing up Americans. This doesn't make the Americans go away, but does serve the purpose of feeding the PR magnet of the operation. More young hotheads read or hear of Americans getting blown up, want to join up, etc.

The young hotheads tend to congregate in cities so hostile to the U.S. that they are considered safe cities. How convenient. Every now and then, the U.S. and Iraqis surround one of these hostile towns and kill quite a number of young hotheads. Mission accomplished. Except, the wily leaders of the hotheads seem always to escape. To continue the operation with another wave of hotheads flooding across the conveniently porous border. The hotheads blow up some more Americans, congregate in a hostile town, are surrounded and killed [except for the leadership] etc.

Pretty fucking brilliant.

Go me one further - what if the hostile leadership, the ones bringing in and training and congregating the young Islamic hotheads - are actually being paid by the U.S.?