With U.S. soldiers as bait, "sitting ducks," as Sullivan puts it, the strategy of the U.S. is to say, in effect, "Bring 'em on!" So what if we lose a couple of hundred – or a couple of thousand – GIs in the process of springing this clever little trap. Baited with plenty of juicy young American troops, just waiting to be picked off, Iraq will attract terrorists like a dead carcass attracts flies. "Operation Flytrap" – it's enough to make any decent person gag. As opposed to [Andrew] Sullivan, who opines:"The extra beauty of this strategy is that it creates a target for Islamist terrorists that is not Israel."
"Beauty." Young Americans as "targets" is "beauty." It is really hard to fathom the depth of these peoples' twistedness.
Raimondo goes on:
Is it really possible for anyone but a moral monster to praise the "beauty" of a strategy that treats American soldiers like sacrificial lambs, moving targets in a shooting gallery, totally expendable? To say nothing of how it treats the Iraqis – who are discovering that the "liberation" of their country means turning it into a charnel house. A more profoundly evil scheme would be hard to imagine.
Yet that profoundly evil scheme exists, and was laid out again - yesterday - by Dick Morris.
There's a lot more - from nearly four years ago and too tragically prescient - at AntiWar.
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It is also known as defense by auto-evisceration. Sea cucumbers are known to do this when being attacked. Unfortunately it is not a defence that can be sustained for any significant period of time, and is not a very effective form of deterent since it rewards the predator. At best it buys the embattered organism some time in which to find a safe place to regenerate its lost organs.
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