New Iraq Strategy
As a form of procrastination I visited the BBC's news website. I was told of a new strategy for Iraq being employed by the Iraqi government...Iraq says it will close its border crossings with Iran and Syria for three days as part of its new security plan for the capital, Baghdad.
Top commander Lt Gen Abboud Gambar used a live TV address to unveil the plan which also extends the Baghdad curfew.
The first thing one must ask themselves is why only three (3) days, surely it makes sense to just close them for a few months, allowing aid to be delivered by the "coalition of the willing", meaning that unless you are a part of the "coalition of the willing" you aren't going to cross the border. The reasoning for the closure...
Officials also said that after the 72-hour border closure, the crossing points with Iran would only be partially reopened.
Gen Gambar said the new plan would give him sweeping emergency powers, combining the command of the police and armed forces.
Weapons permits would be restricted to the Iraqi and US military.
So the theory is, let's close the border for a few days, then reopen all of Syria's and just a little bit of Iran's crossing points, and then only allow Weapons permits to Iraqi and US military personnel...
I won't comment on the irony of issuing weapons permits to those primarily responsible for the violence, (like it or not, if the US military had no weapons they never would have invaded)...
I will however ask if anyone out there can tell me what difference three days will make?
I guess it may establish a supply line of weapons, only if the violence quells for three days, although that infers that insurgents don't have any stockpiles of weapons...
This is starting to hurt my head...
To read the article go here.
Labels: BBC, Iran, Iraq, Syria
posted by Mark @ 4:19 PM
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