Bush commutes Libby sentence

[kandrathe]

Right. The potential recruiting grounds for the communist insurgency was 3 million, the number of actual MNLA supporters, funders and sympathizers would have been far larger than the 8000 or so combatants killed or captured.

...And, indeed, where would you displace them to? Support for the insurgency in Iraq is not a geographically isolated phenomenon, and there is little reason to believe it would be any different in Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, etc...

Hey, I'm just looking for a solution other than, "Sorry, you failed, run away and hope they don't follow you home Yankee".

It wouldn't work to move them out of the country. I would look to expand some existing small communities, and improve them greatly over time. The important point is to depopulate the places of innocents where insurgency exists, and move the populations to better, safer places. Given the nature of Iraqi culture, it would probably only work to relocate entire tribal groups, even if it were temporarily (some months at a time) until their former neighborhoods were cleared and reconstructed. Think of it as a vacation from the war for the innocent victims. Have you seen the conditions in Sadr City? I would think the prospect of going to somewhere pleasant and peaceful for a while, rather than a squalid stinking slum to be attractive for some people.