The Laughing Wolf

Fallujah

Can we just go ahead and give the Darwin award for 2004 to the terminally slow in Fallujah? Somehow, they still seem to think that the old playbook is in use, and that trying to recreate Mogadishu is going to have the same results it did then. They seem very sure that nothing is going to happen to them.

What the CPA and the Iraqi Council does will be interesting to see, but I want to put forward a suggestion that takes from both others in the Blogosphere and from the late Gordy Dickson. Let’s go Dorsai on them.

Cut off all rebuild and other aid to them, seal the town. Send in Kurdish security forces to take over from the current Iraqi police and security forces. Back them up with Ghurka’s. Have the Marines form the perimeter. Take the town down brick by brick and confiscate all weapons, explosives, and such. Arrest and deal with people who have such as needed. If a mosque or other holy place is an armory, as has been the case before, it goes down and its leaders go. The people seen dancing and doing the barbaric acts are caught and dealt with.

People will get the hint, one way or another, and the situation will be vastly improved. It will not be pretty or nice, but then again it will be much prettier and nicer than what is happening there now. Won’t happen, but a guy can dream…

LW