RAND's commentary "Put Iraqi Insurgents Out of Business"

[AFlynn]

Maybe you could pay them in cell phone minutes.

[Tom Odom]

This amounts to trying to drain the swamp while the gators are latched on to your a$$. It is a one perspective one dimensional equivalent of "can't we all just get along?" or "if a frog had wings, he wouldn't bump his butt" thinking. The greatest parallel is "all folks want democracy."

Tom