The Devil Is In The Details

USA Today just ran an editorial supporting Bush’s proposed troop “surge.” The piece argued that the additional troops wouldn’t make Iraq any safer, but it would make the Americans already there safer.

That makes sense until you look at it a little closer. Then it’s just scary as shit:

The new battle plan involves embedding American soldiers into Iraqi regiments – and here’s the important part – these US G.I.s aren’t going to be returning to their fortified American bases after patrol anymore. No, they’ll be billeted in with their Iraqi brethren, in Iraqi-controlled quarters.

If I was a terrorist in Iraq, this news would be better than 72 virgins in heaven to me. What better way to kill Americans than to break them into smaller groups, surround them with armed Iraqis whose actual sympathies tend to be complicated at best, and separate them from their security structure while they sleep?!

“It’s rainin’ pennies from heaven…”

This blunder is going to go down as one of the worst in this war in terms of loss of American life, mark me. If I’ve thought of what a fabulous opportunity to kill ‘infidel Crusaders’ this plan represents – and I only randomly ponder jihad – you can bet your bottom dollar the insurgents have, too, and are already making plans of their own.

Now the insurgents don’t even have to “bring it on!” anymore. Bush is delivering to the enemy American servicemembers’ lives on silver platters.