Kondracke Advocates Ethnic Cleansing Policy In Iraq, ‘Also Known As Winning Dirty’

[babylonsister]

Just ugh. I can't even begin to understand this mindset. Win at all costs, regardless of blood shed?

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/10/kondracke-winning-dirty-iraq/

Kondracke Advocates Ethnic Cleansing Policy In Iraq, ‘Also Known As Winning Dirty’


Roll Call executive editor and Fox News contributor Mort Kondracke writes today that if President Bush’s escalation policy doesn’t work, his Plan B should be “winning dirty,” which involves “accepting rule by Shiites and Kurds, allowing them to violently suppress Sunni resistance and making sure that Shiites friendly to the United States emerge victorious.”

Kondracke, the “left-leaning” counterpart to Weekly Standard editor Fred Barnes on Fox News’ The Beltway Boys, acknowledges that his “winning dirty” policy will lead to ethnic cleansing:

Winning will be dirty because it will allow the Shiite-dominated Iraqi military and some Shiite militias to decimate the Sunni insurgency. There likely will be ethnic cleansing, atrocities against civilians and massive refugee flows.

He also reveals that at least one member of Congress agrees with his plan:

No one has publicly advocated this Plan B, and I know of only one Member of Congress who backs it — and he wants to stay anonymous. But he argues persuasively that it’s the best alternative available if Bush’s surge fails.

Kondracke says it’s understandable that Sunnis suffer because “so far they’ve refused to accept that they’re a minority. They will have to do so eventually, one way or another.” After all, he says, “Civil wars do end. The losers lose and have to knuckle under.”

[Rex]

1. Beltway Boys! What a fucking joke! Two of the biggest political

zeros on the planet Earth! Mort and Fred are as stupid as stupid gets. Proof positive that the M$M works to make money and not really inform the general populace.

The Weekly Standard doesn't even make good toilet paper!

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

2. The Below The Belt Boys are all about winning dirty

That's their very essence and it's how Bush established his BushLeague Chimpocracy.

The part I don't get, however, is the one about "making sure that Shiites friendly to the United States emerge victorious." Are there any Shiites friendly to the United States? After Al Sistani leaves the scene, the biggest enemy of the U.S., Al Sadr seems to be poised to take over.

[derby378]

3. ...

[babylonsister]

7. ??? It was news to me. nt

[derby378]

9. OMG! It wasn't directed at the poster or anyone on DU...

It was directed at "Mor-tawn," as McLaughlin called him, for suggesting that ethnic cleansing is an ideal solution for the "Iraqi question."

Y'all are still just fine in my book. Honest! :hug:

[AlCzervik]

4. Eeeekkk!!!

I'm saying that really loud, thats all i got, i am shocked.

[alcibiades_mystery]

5. The "best alternative possible" is the massacre of a million people?

How do these people show their faces in public?

Nauseating.

[muntrv]

6. Beltway Boys? Someone needs to give them the belt.

[Raksha]

8. Ummm....wouldn't the Saudis be a little bit unhappy with that policy?

And don't they OWN about half the country? No wonder I never heard of this Kondracke character before...he's an IDIOT!

[babylonsister]

10. He's a faux news talking head; you've missed nothing. nt