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Entry: Intelligence Failure--Why America Can't Think Its Way Out of Iraq Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/intelligence_failure_why_america_cant_think_its_way_out_of_iraq#22498 Post contents: @ Cognate, Could be you're right, Neo Cons are ever the optimist on other peoples money. How one may go about "pacifying" the various and sundry factions of the Middle East to Afghanistan when they cannot even stand one another is an interesting challenge, fit for those who like a steady diet of bloodshed or malevolent intrigue. The only time those folks seem to cooperate with one another is when some moronic westerner thinks it a good place to park troops or extract resources at gunpoint. Anarchy may work in Italy, with one village disdaining the next but at least those folks like to live, love, eat and sing more than they like being a martyr. Not to mention the Italian Government, more a concept than a reality....a fine comedy of the darker sort. No, foraging blindly for a pacifier deep inside the Levantine Tar Baby makes about as much sense as sighting one's gun by pointing it right smack between yer own eyes. Sent at: 2008 05 16