The Great Wall of Mexico & the Iraq Civil War

The great wall of Mexico is in the news again. I have an idea. We need to get the Chinese to help us build it. They have experience building a wall, the Great Wall of China. I believe their wall is thousands of miles long, and our proposed wall is just 750 miles long. Next, the Chinese can hire illegal immigrants to build the wall -- we can look the other way. And just when the wall is almost done we can capture them and put them on the other side of the wall.

Then, we can make money by offering them bus rides to the end of the walls so they can come back in and keep our Border Patrol employed. No one has thought about the Border cops in all of this have they ....

Of course, all of this noise about the wall is just to keep our minds off of the terrible screw-up in Iraq. We have imposed our values and our will on a people with the result that hundreds are dying every day. They loose more people every month than we have lost throughout the entire war. Their country is on the verge of a complete breakdown, a civil war that will consume their lives for perhaps a generation. And we have no plan, now when one is the most needed. We screwed it up, and all we can say is "steady as she goes."

Plan B. Divide the country into three regions. Duh, yea along the religious borders. Divide the oil into three parts. Then let the independent states eventually, if they chose, decide how the states will join to make a country. Give everyone their space and everyone a cut of the oil pie. Of course, the transition from the present one central government that few believe in is the huge challenge. Getting them to change the course and switch to a Plan B, will require some very good diplomacy. Oh yea, I forgot, we in the great country of Jehovah Bush don't need diplomacy. We are smart enough and strong enough not to need the help of other countries. Of course, we are not the ones now laughing in Iraq. But, more likely than make such a radical transition and admit Plan A was flawed, Jehovah Bush will more than likely change Generals or something similar in Iraq. Or perhaps, support a draft. Anyway, nothing significant. We will delay going to Plan C until the next Presidential Election.

Plan C. Walk away and let tens of thousands, perhaps even millions, die in a civil war before Iran slips in and occupies the oil rich Iraq territory. Or, even worse, watch all the surrounding countries go to war to get Iraq's oil. Then let a few of the big energy hungry countries, like the U.S. and China start taking sides. All I can say, we sure our lucky to have Jehovah Bush on our side. Of course, he will be out of office by then, but we can bring him back as our spiritual leader, so he can continue to help us achieve our great destiny.