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What’s the secret to winning a war these days? Get the media to shut up. Throw them a piece of raw meat and get them off the trail and onto something else.

And something does have to happen. What I think has to happen is another war. What saved us from defeat in Afghanistan was Iraq. The MSM didn’t have time to create a defeat. With the media focus on Iraq, Afghanistan had four years to stabilize a government. Every leftist I know believes Afghanistan is a defeat, but the American public doesn’t know that, so the Afghans don’t know that, so in fact they putter along and are doing fairly well.

Iraq though, constantly, every night, is a “defeat”. and so it may become a defeat in fact as Americans get tired of hearing the dismal drone every night and so just want to get out so it will stop. (We could fight a decent war if we could just get Americans to play bingo rather than watch CBS.) There is one way just as good as bingo and that’s to attack Iran. An attack is always kind of fun, and it’s different, it’s a break from the drone. Initially at least Americans would support it, most Americans, and it certainly would lead to discussion. And initially it would be successful and possibly useful.

I do think we’re moving that way. I would settle for a little bit of “hot pursuit“.

And in Iraq we could use something akin to hot pursuit. Democracy comes through the barrel of a gun. All governments are formed with the gun, and I do hope the administration is getting tired of Maliki pussyfooting with al-Sadr. “This is democracy, we were elected. Sadr is my ally and I protect him.” Sorry. An armed militia not controlled by a national government is not democracy. It’s a dangerously disruptive faction and the antithesis of centralized democratic government and has got to go. (emphasis mine, read it all here)

The above was written by a genius, a genius I tell you, (ha) at Wannagetaburger blog. He/she suggests that perhaps a confrontation with Iran in the near future may be just what Iraq needs. There are rumors of a confrontation with Iran in the near future.

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