In Iraq, the militants have a plan, does the U.S.?

In Iraq, the militants have a plan, does the U.S.?

By Dick Kazan

In Iraq, those the U.S. calls "militants" have a plan, which is to drive the U.S. out by blowing-up the bridges, highways and other infrastructure to make it hard for the U.S. to supply its troops.

They are also attacking across Baghdad, and as the U.S. reacts, they attack elsewhere in the country and then attack in Baghdad again. And now they have begun aggressively attacking the heavily fortified Green Zone, where the U.S. command staff is based, as is the Iraqi government, so that no place in Iraq is safe.

It is reminiscent of the Vietnam war in which the Viet Cong attacked America's most heavily fortified areas of Saigon, until no place there was safe for America, its supporters nor for the South Vietnamese government that America kept in power.

In Iraq, the militants' plan is also for a war of attrition. As was Vietnam for the Viet Cong, Iraq is their home and because they are of the people, they can fight on indefinitely. The U.S. is a foreign invader and the cost to occupy Iraq is massive. And the militants keep disrupting the oil flow so the American tax-payer stands the rapidly escalating cost of the war.

In addition, four years after the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq, the Iraqis have less water, less electricity, less gasoline and far less security than they had under Saddam Hussein. And as with Saddam, they have a government they fear. So there is little support among the Iraqi people for the Americans or for their government.

As it had in Vietnam, America in Iraq has by far the most powerful, sophisticated and expensive weapons and the militants have no air support or armored vehicles. But in modern warfare, cheap pipe bombs and other explosives can be devastating, as can suicide bombers who willingly surrender their lives for the cause.

As for America's strategy in Iraq, President Bush says, "I listen to the generals on the ground" in Iraq. But which generals are they? He keeps replacing them and their replacements keep changing plans....

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The strategy has been to destabilize the country and cause fighting amongst the various factions which impedes the formation and independence of a new government. The result is an endless conflict of which we cannot extricate ourselves, and a puppet government that allows us to pillage their country of it's resources. The strategy has components of expansion into other countries too.

The Bush junta is doing exactly what they planned.

On edit - I forgot to include the destruction of our military and the middle class of this country, which will occur as our tax dollars and our soldier's lives are squandered over many years to satisfy the bottomless pit of the corporate beast.

But I think you are correct.

It sure the hell is a sick strategy, some might call it insane.