Written by: Beck
Friend and blogger Chris Roach over at
man-sized target has a new post about his outlook on the Iraq war. I've neither heard nor considered this particular outlook on the Iraq war before, and it definitely bears consideration. Chris calls it the "flypaper hypothesis," and it can best be described as: "
Thank goodness Iraq is such a quagmire!"
I shocked, or tried to shock, a prominent Washington "neoconservative" over lunch the other day by declaring that the Iraqi mission was a complete success. "I hoped the U.S. would get into a quagmire in Iraq, and now they' re in the quagmire. The operation has in fact gone more smoothly than I could have foreseen." This is because, as I went on to explain, simply by being there, and not budging, the U.S. has moved the focus of the international Jihad from the West back to the East.
We thus return to the "flypaper hypothesis" I first expounded a couple of years ago, in which the U.S. hangs out its flypaper far away from home, and also as far from Israel as possible, to collect as many as possible of the world's movable Jihadis in a place where the U.S. has installed the equipment to kill them.
Go read it already.