Kagan Konfusion

Part of my problem with this asshole Kagan is there are TWO of them. Robert Kagan, columnist for the WaPo, author, co-founder of Project for a New American Century with William Kristol, wife was Dick Cheney's Deputy National Security Advisor, now ambassador to NATO, appointed back in the day by Elliot Abrams to push for support for Nicaraguan contras.

Then there is his brother,Fredrick Kagan, the Rock Star from the American Enterprise Institute getting all the press lately for his role in pushing the "surge".Also signed on to the PNAC. Also writes for the Weekly Standard, Foreign Policy etc. Doesn't look to me like he has seen a lot of combat. So that explains why I have been hearing so much about this Kagan bastard. Their father Donald is also a prominent neocon and signed the thing as well.. A whole family of heinous fuckers! Imagine those Thanksgiving table blessings!

So Maliki takes charge today and whoops up on a bunch of Sunni over in west Baghdad. Says he'll call for US help when and if he needs it. Ive predicted the end game is so-long-Sunni and the "surge " might just end up being a mop up and evacuation effort. Call it that and I might even support it! But if the plan is just to come up with a couple of new SuperGenerals, a few more troops and some air power to go kick butt, it begs this question: Why was this not the plan two years and 50,000 lives ago? A new McArthur just suddenly appeared? The Iraqi troops just suddenly got trained and inspired? The governments (ours and theirs) just now realized it had a problem and needed to act?

This requires such a suspension of disbelief, Im frankly unable to pull it off. The problem was and still is that the end game is not at all pretty and nothing like Bush's original fantasy.I'm also having trouble mustering the faith that the US forces can pull off the kind of humanitarian relief and evacuation effort we are soon going to need. Time to beg for help. Mr.Wizard!