In his article, "Dealing with the Iraq Insurgency Militarily" (American Thinker, 12/26/06), Col. Tom Snodgrass argues that Iraq is effectively equivalent to Vietnam, where the US military were kept from cutting enemy supply lines, so that North Vietnam and the Vietcong could simply keep up the war long enough to exhaust American domestic support.  If Col. Snodgrass is right in his premises, he would be right in his conclusion that the Iraq War is hopeless.  Col. Snodgrass defines the enemy as Islamists who are motivated to destroy the West. If that is true, the sensible US response would be a "Kissinger option" for Iraq, just as we adopted a Kissinger option after the Vietnam war. That is, if the elected Iraqi government with our support cannot protect its citizens, we may have to go along with the current Saudi proposal, and save the Sunnis in Iraq from Shiite vengeance. Regionally, that implies supporting Sunni Arab powers against an Iranian-controlled...(Read Full Post)