It's old news by blogosphere standards, but I didn't want to immediately post about the attack on Coalition civilians this morning in Fallujah, Iraq. Why? Because my first instinct was that we should drop a few MOABs on the city and see how much they really like burning corpses. However, I realize that probably wouldn't be the best solution. (Note to the future: if I ever run for President this quote should be presented as suitably hawkish, yet moderated by reason.)
My new thought is to implement a plan similar to Mr. du Toit's suggestion for Africa and Israel's plans for the Palestinians: build a nice big fence, toss in a bunch of guns, and then cut all the water and power. Whoever's left at the end should prove much more amiable. You don't want the CPA running your lives? You want Ba'athist thugs in charge again? Fine, have at it. But just to be fair, this time everyone gets a gun.
I had the same reaction after reading this news story, and I still see red everytime I see one of the news photos. Lord knows a vindictive American on this side of the ocean can't do much to help, but MAN...that urge is so strong.
I've thought for a long time that we need to just build a fence around the entire Middle East (including Israel) and just leave 'em all to their own devices.
Of course, as long as we remain oil-dependent that will never happen.
I've always wondered what keeps peaceful people in a situation like that after a militant dictator has been overthrown. I've always thought if we could tell the "good people" (non-terrorists) to leave without letting on to any of the "bad people" we could bomb the living daylights out of them. However, I don't understand how you could condone bombing a country that has many innocent victims with no place to go who would also die.