Tuesday, May 08, 2007

"Let them Kill Our Soldiers Over There" II

Referring back to this comment by Dick Morris, the "Flytrap Theory" was exposed for the sickness it is by Justin Raimondo in September, 2003:

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.

1 comment:

Wag the Dog said...

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.