Blogging Against Senator Sam Brownback Since March 2005
In a dramatic departure from the rank and file GOP talking points on Iraq, Senator Sam Brownback is advocating a partitioning of Iraq by religious lines in order to quell the never-ending violence that is plaguing the country. The AP reports:
“We are not willing to impose a military solution in Iraq. The Iraqis, I don’t believe, are going to be capable of imposing a military solution. Therefore, you must get to some form of political equilibrium in Iraq. And by that I think you may end up having to have a Kurdish, a Sunni, a Shiite area, and Baghdad being a federal capital. Hopefully you can maintain it in one country,” he said.
This is exactly the kind of risk that Senator Sam Brownback will need to take if he is going to be competetive in the republican primary for President. While John McCain wants to throw more troops at the problem and Romney doesn’t have a clue what he wants to do, Brownback is coming out with a tough solution that just may resonate with the republican primary voters.
Another striking piece of the equation is Senator Brownback’s choice of words when describing a good outcome:
Therefore, you must get to some form of political equilibrium in Iraq.
So now mere equilibrium is a success. The sad part is, equilibrium is likely the best case scenario.
I’ll leave the implementation problems for a later post, but Brownback is certainly going to keep his press run going with this new proposal.
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December 7th, 2006 at 6:58 pm
Sounds like a plan similar to your buddy Joe Biden…
December 8th, 2006 at 10:07 am
This suggestion actually makes some sense. The fact of the matter is that Iraq is not one country but three countries just like the former Yugoslavia was not one country. Iraq was only held together because dictators like Saddam were willing to ruthlessly suppress any movement toward dividing the country. In particular, the best way out of the current Iraq mess might be to move all US troops to Kurdistan and all it to declare independence. The presence of 140,000 US troops there would deter any inteference from Turkey or Syria, and would also deter Kurdish interference in those countries. The Sunnis and Shkiites would then be free to sort things out for themselves.
December 11th, 2006 at 10:44 am
Even though I am a Brownback supporter I am glad to have discovered your site as it appears to be a good source of info on the man and even contains good analysis. But as for this post I am confused. Are you complimenting him?