EVERYBODY OUT OF THE POOL

Okay, clearly the Iraqi's are not stepping up to secure our vision of freedom for them. Perhaps it is time to leverage the FEAR FACTOR to spur them to act.

Remember how fast the pool got emptied in the movie "CADDY SHACK"! When the mis-identified flying Baby Ruth candy bar plopped into the Swanky Country Club Pool? Everyone scurried away to avoid the brown turd-pedo?

Watch how fast people galvanize if we let the Iraqi's stare down the barrel at the very real prospect of an un-mitigated Civil War as we exit the cities and form a defensive perimeter around the country's borders.

We should blow the metaphorical Lifeguard Whistle and shout to the populace..."Hey, anyone not an Iraqi citizen...out of the pool"! Then seal-off the borders and make a comprehensive sweep of each community. We can look for proper documentation and toss out anyone without "papers" or a "purple thumb". Then reduce our role to maintaining the integrity of the Iraqi border. Perhaps we can plop a few extra well-equipped Marines on the Iranian border and see if President Ahmadinejad continues to smile and pop-off verbal scuds or if he'll start to soil his shorts.

Then the Iraqi's can have their nation clarifying civil action (in whatever form they opt for). We can step out of the no-win, attrition-plaqued, urban police role and let the Iraqi's do the heavy lifting. However it turns out, we can proudly and honestly say to the Iraqi's, the world, and to oursleves...we gave them "a chance at self-determination"! What they create for themselves is what they earned for themselves and they can take pride it that.

Here's the bonus, once the 101st Airborne and other fine fighting forces fine-tune their border protection acumen, they can come home and teach the border patrol how to do it!