Sunni Switcheroo: Please Stay, America!

Reality sets in. I've long, and too frequently, commented on the Sunnis' bizarrely counterproductive war on America. Just what did these idiots imagine would happen if we left?

Maybe the Shiites, who outnumber them, and now out-gun them, and who have been massacred and oppressed by the Sunnis for fifty years or more, would, I don't know, decide it was time for a little ethnic-cleansing payback?

It was and is a strange situation. The group we're protecting the most is the group that's murdering us the most. One thing that appealed to me about the Demcrats' bug-out plan -- ooops, I mean "strategic over-the-horizon strong, tough redeployment to Okinawa" -- was that the Sunnis would, tragically but justifiably, get to enjoy reaping the whirlwind they created.

As sectarian violence soars, many Sunni Arab political and religious leaders once staunchly opposed to the American presence here are now saying they need American troops to protect them from the rampages of Shiite militias and Shiite-run government forces.

I feel like there should be a Rocky Horror style shoutback here, like "What did you think would eventually happen, assholes?"

The pleas from the Sunni Arab leaders have been growing in intensity since an eruption of sectarian bloodletting in February, but they have reached a new pitch in recent days as Shiite militiamen have brazenly shot dead groups of Sunni civilians in broad daylight in Baghdad and other mixed areas of central Iraq.

"Castles don't have phones, assholes. And oh, by the way, if you keep butchering people, they might start to butcher you back. Just FYI."

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The Sunni Arab leaders say they have no newfound love for the Americans. Many say they still sympathize with the insurgency and despise the Bush administration...

"An outnumbered, outgunned despised formerly-tyrannical minority shouldn't keep blowing people up, assholes!"

But the Sunni leaders have dropped demands for a quick withdrawal of American troops. Many now ask for little more than a timetable. A few Sunni leaders even say they want more American soldiers on the ground to help contain the widening chaos.

Oh, Lordy. They want more Americans to protect them from the violence they created. More American boys in harm's way, trading American combat deaths for Sunni lives.

Yeah. We'll get right on that, Chief.

posted by Ace at 04:59 PM

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