Comments on: Plan B if the surge fails: Baker/Hamilton mania!

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » Domenici (R-NM) calls for withdrawal of most U.S. troops by March

Thu, 05 Jul 2007 20:35:59 +0000

[...] Bush’s team has reportedly been murmuring for the past six weeks or so about a Baker-Hamilton resurgence and the House actually passed a measure to resurrect the Group back at the end of June. There’s no question we’re going to adopt some form of that strategy; the question is whether Bush is going to go along and pretend like he thinks it’s a good idea or if he’ll resist until Congress overrides him and then blame the chaos that follows withdrawal on them. Probably the former — I don’t think he could stand to have his war authority diminished the way the latter process would. [...]

By: harrison

harrison — Tue, 22 May 2007 19:40:14 +0000

What? An overlap of troops? I thought this was like one of those tag-team matches where one guy makes it back to the ropes, slaps the hand of another who takes up where the first one left off. This means the ones leaving will have to stop and train the new guys on things like “how not to get killed.” What?

Jeez.

By: amerpundit

amerpundit — Tue, 22 May 2007 19:09:09 +0000

soulsirkus on May 22, 2007 at 2:58 PM

Our problem is that we’re firing ammunition out of the front of tanks. Try ham.

By: amerpundit

amerpundit — Tue, 22 May 2007 19:07:51 +0000

“I still haven’t grasped how U.S. special forces are going to maneuver against AQ in the midst of a full-scale Iraqi civil war, particularly when Sunni locals will be more inclined to shelter Al Qaeda by then given the role it’ll be playing as a sword against the Shia.”

Well, when you don’t live in reality, that could possibly happen. That’s in the same world where you can fight Iraq from Japan, get Iran and Syria to keep their promises, and enter into talks with Osama.

By: Hilts

Hilts — Tue, 22 May 2007 19:07:36 +0000

Hasn’t James “F*** the Jews” Baker’s expiration date passed already?

By: soulsirkus

soulsirkus — Tue, 22 May 2007 18:58:10 +0000

Hmmmm Baker-Hamilton. Baked Ham! Might just work. Then again with these two, I’d be safer just wearing a hamhock around my neck.

By: BohicaTwentyTwo

BohicaTwentyTwo — Tue, 22 May 2007 18:35:50 +0000

There’s a fine line between defeatism and pragmatism. Let’s face it, we are surged out, there will not be a second surge if this one doesn’t work.

By: Enrique

Enrique — Tue, 22 May 2007 18:30:27 +0000

Ignatius:

There’s a bipartisan path out of this [Iraq] impasse, but will America’s leaders be wise enough to take it?

The real question is, is the American public mature and responsible enough to support a bipartisan solution to Iraq that would require continued military presence? You go to war with the American public you have, not the sober, adult American public you wish to have at a later date. I think at this point, most American folks think the Iraq war is so far gone that failure is inevitable, therefore we might as well pull out and fail now rather than in six months and hundreds of troop deaths later.

That’s pretty much the way I feel. If I thought the American public was grown up enough to understand that once you invade a country, you have to stay there indefinitely until that country is secure – no matter how many American lives it costs – then I’d feel differently. But at this point, we’re too childish and petulant to be successful in Iraq (or Afghanistan for that matter, if you read the other post on how Dems have caved on that war, too), and our shameful irresponsibility is only being enabled by the Ted Kennedys and Nancy Pelosis of the world. I just don’t see any workable solution at this point, other than coercing the MSM to stop doing Al Qaeda’s propaganda work, but that’s probably unconstitutional.

By: Romeo13

Romeo13 — Tue, 22 May 2007 18:25:46 +0000

Yeah… Baker… Hamilton…

Lets let the guys who got us into this mess in the first place make the plan…

Yeah… that the ticket…

By: Limerick

Limerick — Tue, 22 May 2007 18:19:16 +0000

Provide “force protection” for U.S. troops who remain in Iraq

can’t. find. the. words……….

Staying behind the wire. That’ll confuse and hinder the enemy, keep him off balance, and convince him we mean business.

Been there. Done that. Lost.