Monday, March 24, 2003 :::
I guess I figured that's what we should be doing all along; the deadline is hit, we drop bombs as appropriate, then we drive to Baghdad, largely ignoring anything that can be ignored.There was a series in Foxtrot in the past couple years in which Paige had made it past a level in a video game that had Jason stumped. The secret, it turned out, was not to fight the monster; just leave it alone, it leaves you alone, you go on. I figured the same was largely true of the Iraqi army: there need be no war until someone resists our peaceful takeover of their country. (Of course, I was advocating militarized inspections before France was, my objection to the French proposal being that I didn't think the militarized would be called in when necessary; if it were put under U.S. command, that would have still been the way to go last week. American troops driving past Iraqi troops that pose no threat to hurry along to eliminate threats to our security is separated from this by a line that's rather fuzzy at best.)
::: posted by dWj at 5:36 PM
