Thanks, Iraq Study Group, but No Thanks

We do not recommend division of Iraq ... Such a devolution could not be managed on an orderly basis; and because Iraq's major cities are peopled by a mixture of warring groups (it could create a) humanitarian disaster or broad-based civil war. -- Iraq Study Group report

This is a report that only a one-worlder could love. One-worlders are those people who wish there was only one world government, and that they were in charge of it. True Americans realize that the less government the better, and what little you allow there to be, it's best to keep it close to home. This is why the 10th amendment came about; the one that limits federal government to only one or two key functions, with the states, or the people, in charge of everything else.

As one who has suggested on a number of occasions that my state respectfully secede from the Union, I am watchful of the sort of creeping tyranny where some group in some faraway province exerts fascist strong-arming on me.

It's easy to recognize the one-worlders. They are all oveer the place, and masquerade sometimes as shining examples of "the American Way". The U.S. supreme court acts in a one world fashion whenever they overturn legally enacted state laws (such as those reestricting abortion), or references foreign law in their rulings on purely American matters. Dick Lugar is a one-worlder. He wants the United Nations to have more power and invariably votes that way, as do many other US senators. This is insidious, and one of the many modern things we must be vigilant about.

So now, they want Iraq to be held together like there is some mysterious synergy in that outcome. The natural inclination is for people to resist central governments. None of the Iraqis will be free unless they can self govern. There are no proposals on the table that allow this to happen. The political hacks who have screwed us up over here (and all but decimated states rights) want the same thing for Iraq.

The solution (as it was with the former Soviet Union) is to allow the Kurdistanis, The Sunnis, and the Shiites to have their own governments, their own territories, and inherit and deal with their own problems. Otherwise, the minority party will sling real bombs into eternity; thinking (and they may be right) that the government is the cause of their problems.

So, Baker and Hamilton grab a bunch of people together and come up with this nonsense. Here's where we went wrong on the whole Iraqi thing (and you've heard me say this before): The military portion of this job ended years ago. We have no hope of making a lasting contribution in the political phase. Our own model is no longer worth copying. Since about 150 years ago, we've been fighting for our freedom against our particular "democracy". It's time to let the Iraqis find their own democracy, in their own way.