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I watched the State of The Union Address last week and watched as many hours of punditry afterwards just to get a better sense of what this bog-like quagmire in Iraq is turning into. I've also digested the news reports in the last week since the President's speech.

What I've come to wrap in a nutshell is that no amount of troops that the "coalition" forces send to Iraq can possibly curb ones' desire to kill themselves and take as many people with them when they do that. Disenfranchise a human being to a point that life is not worth living, and you can mold an individual into one who is very dangerous to others.

It can happen everywhere in civilized society. In the United States, for instance, if one disenfranchises a postal worker, guess what happens?

Send millions of more soldiers to Iraq, it will not make a difference. To some of these iconoclastic non-secular radical neo-luddites, to kill one’s self is like trying to get them to stop breathing. I believe it cannot be done right now. No one can stop anyone from a suicide bomber if they have the explosives and means to do so. And the death squads? What amount of soldiers can possibly curb that problem?

It is more and more evident that this "war" is the most unconventional conflict that this country has ever been in. Exponentially more unconventional than 'Nam. Unconventional circumstances require unconventional solutions.

So, to this end I propose two solutions.

One solution to curb suicide bombers is to be able to read such a person's mind. The solution lies in sending mentalists like John Edwards and Miss Cleo straight to Iraq to help the cause. I know that they'll hedge and claim that such types can only "channel" dead people. They can, however, "channel" the virgins that these suicidal dead-enders are being promised by their clergy.

Surely, one of these hucksters can claim to be able to reach at least one of the seventy virgins that these lemmings are being promised in the after-life. Or, perhaps he or she can pretend that he can.

Put John Edwards on TV and have that guy start some channeling with these seventy virgins and channel what they are saying. John Edwards would then channel babble like how these virgins are all 90 years old and incontinent. How God has taken all their vaginas away by plugging them shut. Then, perhaps brand an FBI agent a cleric and agree with John Edwards' visions. Put these two on Al-Jazeera and disseminate that disinformation onto the gullible hoards who inhabit these wastelands. This campaign could be buttressed by having Dionne Warwick do testimonials that she knows these asexual Arab virgins.

Suicide bomber problem solved without having to get into a bidding war with these clerics that The West can promise more virgins if these lemmings chose to remain alive instead.

My second solution: pull completely out of Iraq now and create a leadership vacuum. Allow the Iraqis hash it all out. When a leader emerges, and if that leader is not in-line with pragmatic modern secular non-violent ideals, well......America and another phony timid coalition country go in, blow everyone apart, and allow the process to start all over again.

The way that I see it, the American military machine is very very good at invading a country and ousting existing governments. Panama and Grenada come to mind. The first time around in Iraq, we were able to have Saddam surrender with approximately 300 soldiers' lives lost and about 500 wounded. American policy and its military are incapable of occupation, however. That is where the problem lies folks. Contrary to the American ideal of allowing market forces to settle prices, that particular discipline is ignored when it comes to nation building. Why?

Too cruel? Too inhumane to the civilian population? It would create a refugee problem for neighboring Arab countries?

Regrettably, the current administration of George Bush and the beehive of influence surrounding it, is not receptive to the unconventional. Not attuned for such out of the box attack strategies on Arab governments. It would require too much patience and too much articulate thought.

Take for instance this essay by Captain Peter Layton of The Royal Australian Air Force. He outlines the unconventionality:
http://www.usni.org/Proceedings/Articles03/prolayton03.htm

Any kind of fundamentalism, Islamic or Christian, stands to tip the worlds tender equilibrium. The clashing philosophies are readying a titanic showdown.

Offering these types a Coca-Cola is not going to stop their hate.

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