Monday, September 26, 2011

The War in Iraq an alternate strategy

Imagine if they had just got B52 bombers and filled them with US $100.00 bills and shovelled the cash out over Iraq instead of invading. If they did that as an alternativ­e strategy how many plane loads would it have taken to match what they have spent on the invasion and occupation­. Don't mention the dead. Don't mention the maimed or the homeless or the orphans. 4000+ young Americans that should not be dead. Tens of thousands of Iraqi women and children would still be alive. I'm sure with my plan the occasional Iraqi would have been hit with a wad of 100s and killed instantly and the occasional casualty would occur with one of the money shovellers falling out of the planes. But generally my plan of carpet bombing Iraq with 100 dollar bills would have worked. It would have been successful and it would have signalled progress in the state of middle east affairs. It would be seen as refreshing America trying a new adult approach to foreign relations. It would have meant freedom for the people of Iraq. This strategy would have proven infinately more productive than the current approach. And except for the unlucky and uncoordina­ted no one would have gotten hurt.