Special Ed Military Planning

One Really, Really Bad Idea

The United States has accepted an offer by Serbia and Montenegro to send up to 1,000 combat troops and police to Afghanistan to participate with American forces there, senior Serb officials and foreign diplomats said on Friday.

Probably due to the long history of good relations between Serbs and Muslims, hmm? How desperate is the administration to take Serbian soldiers to help patrol a Muslim country? A few doors down, the Iraqi Governing Council has already rejected the introduction of the Turkish troops, for whom the US essentially bribed Turkey with an $8.5 billion loan. Their fears are easily understandable, what with Turkey having ruled Iraq for 400 years leading up to WWI.

Man, where are the Mongols when you need them? I guess the Persians are still around, but there are a few, um, issues with getting their troops in there to help us. Then again, even if the Hittites and Kassites were still around to lend their experience in "controlling" Mesopotamia, it likely wouldn't be enough.

Read this Billmon post (I mean it - read it) about the rapidly deteriorating situation in Iraq before you swallow one grain of the right wing's argument that the media is making things out to be worse than they are. If anything, they are underplaying the impending disaster.