Irai Solution

Dear Editor:

The president has left Washington for his ranch in Texas, a trip which has been described by the White House press office as a “working vacation.” Members of the National Security Team are flying there for further deliberations and suggestions to help Mr. Bush decide on a “new course” direction for the war in Iraq. This is also known as a further delay in taking any action, in view of the fact that it has been almost two months since the mid-term elections that provoked this deliberation. Evidently the president has been in the dark and hasn’t been aware of what to do, other than “stay the course.”

With all of these new solutions or directions being offered to our commander-in-chief, it seems there is one that has not been brought up, or at least made public. I believe that the best solution, that helps to protect our troops, is to pull back all American and Coalition troops to the Iraqi borders and block all possible entrances and exits to the country, both going in and going out. This would include policing a no-fly zone over the entire country.

Then, with our troops out of harms way, let the Iraqis settle their problems themselves. It doesn’t matter whether it be a civil war, sectarian killing, or peaceful negotiations. The ball would be in their court and we would just be observers and border patrol to keep out arms shipments and additional killers, and to keep in anyone wanting to get out.

If this works, maybe we should consider doing the same thing with the White House.