Wes Clark's New 'Plan' for Iraq

It's seriously pie-in-the-sky stuff:

Iraq, for its part, must begin to enforce the ban on armed militias that was enshrined in the new Constitution, especially in the south. Ideally, this should be achieved voluntarily, through political means.

Enforce the ban? Hell, Iraqi leaders are the ones who've undermined it. More:

As important as these military changes are, they won't matter at all unless our political strategy is rethought. First, the Iraqis must change the Constitution as quickly as possible after next week's parliamentary elections. Most important, oil revenues should be declared the property of the central government, not the provinces. And the federal concept must be modified to preclude the creation of a Shiite autonomous region in the south.

Must...must...must. I agree that it would be great if Iraqis changed the constitution to mandate sharing oil revenues. But how exactly do you propose to convince Iraqis leaders, who remember, are the ones who've crafted all these policies that you think must change? Mr. Clark? Mr. Clark?

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[Zathras]

And that's the good news. The bad news is that The Times had to cut for length Clark's advice to increase rainfall in Iraq and "do something about all the heat and dust. God, if I had to live there I'd want to blow myself up too."