[lbo-talk] Michael Perelman's Peace Plan For Iraq

[Bill Bartlett]

There's no need to go to that much trouble, just re-define "victory" 
and "peace". The advantage of this is that it would be retrospective, 
Vietnam would turn out to have been a victory all along. In fact it 
might turn out that the Vietnam "war" had never happened at all. It 
would then be referred to in history texts as the "Vietnam peace".

A middle east peace plan also becomes a much less complex problem 
with the stroke of a pen.

The only problem of course is that, having achieved the utopian dream 
of making war impossible, it would be a bit harder to justify a 
gargantuan war machine. But the answer there is to simply rename the 
army navy and air-force. They would become the Land Peace Corps, the 
Air Peace Corps and the Water Peace Corps.

All the problems of the world solved. Applause!

Bill Bartlett
Bracknell Tas

At 7:49 PM -0700 3/6/09, michael perelman wrote:


>Here is my suggestion: just redefine Iraq to be the Green Zone. 
>Declare victory now that U.S. government has conquered the country. 
>The rest could be disputed territory, such as Israel defines the 
>West Bank. The United Nations, Iraq's neighbors, or even the Iraqi 
>people could sort out what to do with this disputed.
>
>Republicans should be delighted to be able to claim that Bush's 
>policy is vindicated. Democrats could crow about how they achieved 
>peace. And the Defense Department could find a less dangerous land 
>to bomb.