A MidEast Solution That Will Work!

Dear General Abizaid....

Once we realize that Bush' s version of cut and run reeks of what we pulled in Vietnam, I offer you the follow recommendation predicated on the fact that both Sunni and Shia' are rational to an extent, informed and somewhat concerned about the future of their country.


Here's the plan: I propose that our top military strategists examine every single "hot" area and prioritize them according to the violence and bloodshed that has been doled out there.

We then develop a map of the top 100 hottest areas very defined with red lines around each entire area and listed as Hot Area number Ten and so on...

Step Two, We publish the map with the following information:

That all residents are being officially notified that they have one month to end the blood shed in the first 100 geographic areas; and that if they can't do it with barriers, security, whatever, we shall step in..

We shall come in with teams of engineers and bulldozers and demolish all the buildings and turn each area into a green area with no housing..

We shall do that one by one until we work our way through the first list. We don't care if you are Iraqi shiia' or Sunni. That's the policy.

We do now that innocents also live in these areas and will want to take advantage of the following offer:

using funds that would ordinarily be used to build missiles and weapons combined with Iraqi oil money, we shall afford every family who cares to do so a new residence in a protected walled area with security posted all around in what are considered quiet areas sequestered around the country.

We would expect our big US subcontractors to work at cost to make up for the 9 billion dollars they lost and the other waste and inefficiency that they thought they would get away with. They will be given deadlines and if they don't meet them, they will be penalized.. A full accounting would be made by the democratic led government purchasing office.

Among those who seek a new life, there will be separate areas for both Sunni and Shiite to eliminate the problem once and for all of having to live together. Where possible, the Sunni's will be sent to areas as close as possible to Sunni areas and that same formulae will apply to the Shiite areas.

Simple as that!

I guarantee that the good people will want to get out and be among their own kind living in quiet areas. For the rest, the trouble-makers who wont vacate, the hard-liners, they become part of the roadway. as we push forward.

In six months, you will either end all of the bloodshed, or you will have converted a good part of Iraq into a serene area that will be good for the environment and global warming.

Les Aaron