I hope the Pentagon recommendations will include a massive step-up in the effort to find and kill insurgents.
This is the only feasible strategy of the three, and still not without risk. Simply put, it's a bit of a strain for us to drop another 30,000 troops anywhere right now, and there's no guarentee this will dent the problem. If this falls though, it's going to strengthen the perception that we're in a fight we can't win.
Another strategy would redirect the U.S. military away from the internal strife to focus mainly on hunting terrorists affiliated with al-Qaeda.
Letting the country fall apart to hunt al-Qa'ida is dumb on two levels. First, we need specialized units and resources to hunt AQI, and they're already comitted. It just takes time to gather the intelligence needed to find them. Putting more troops on the problem isn't going to help noticibly, but it will allow chaos to spread elsewhere. Not a good trade.
And the third would concentrate political attention on supporting the majority Shiites and abandon U.S. efforts to reach out to Sunni insurgents.
Giving the Shiites the standing to go Rwandan on the Sunnis in 2007. Also not a great plan. This would destabilize the country and soon after, the region, faster than anything we could do. All for the benefit of Iranian proxies and Iran itself.
I am for the second option (we should stay out of civil internecine Muslim strife) and dead set against the third option (we shouldn't favor one side in this sectarian cr*p, especially pro-Iranian a*hles).
Well, I can see these three options are drawing a real firestorm of attention and excitement. Or is that just the crickets chirping?
Which will lead us right back to Baghdad.
The major alternatives include a short-term surge of 15,000 to 30,000 additional U.S. troops to secure Baghdad and accelerate the training of Iraqi forces.
I guess it is more of the "political leak" confused for being fact.
Let see, the leak about Fitzmus, the Baker Clowns, the 09-11 Comission and a bunch of other stuff have been partially or wholly nonsense yet here we are still taking the "Unnamed sources" seriously. What a bunch of butt clowns the Junk Media is.