More on the Forthcoming War

The Pentagon wisely decided to leak their war plans to MSNBC today. Apparently they plan on bombing Bahgdad intensively for about a week, then sending in ground troops. They might send in an Army/Marine combined forth across land from Kuwait, or they might have Marines land along the coast of the Persian Gulf, or they might have Marines take advanced positions, using Helicoptors to get them there. They expect the fighting to be largely over within three weeks.

So three weeks to the war, and then three weeks of the war. We'll check back in six weeks and see how these plans go.

The article does contain this potential wrench in the works. "Military officials predicted that the worst of the fighting could be over in two to three weeks, assuming Iraqi President Saddam Hussein doesn’t try to prolong his control by using weapons of mass destruction."

Nothing to worry about. After all we've said repeatedly that we will eliminate him regardless of what he does--what incentive would have have to use them? The kicker is that if and when he uses weapons of mass distruction on American Troops, well, that will in retrospect have justified everything we did to provoke him.

Yeah and Saddam is going to try to "prolong his control" by using weapons of mass distruction. Yep, that's his goal. He's a reckless idiot. Well, he is a reckless idiot--but anybody paying the lease attention should realize that using what he has will be an act of revenge, not control.

"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."
Friedrich Nietzsche

We are entering a brave new world of international diplomacy--a world where we can invade any country we want at any time. I'm sure the world will breath easier.