According to the CSMonitor, a Reagan-era plan for dealing with the Sandinista government of Nicaragua in the 1980s by using 'nationalist' sympathizers from among the Nicaraguan Contras movement including 'death squads' for the purposes of eliminating the leadership of the Sandinista regime may be the model for dealing with the Sunni insurgents in Iraq. The plan, it seems, consists of forming similar tactical squadrons made up of Kurdish Peshmerga and Shiite militiamen to attack the Sunni insurgent groups, their leadership, and their sympathizers in Iraq.
What a better way to build unity among the various religious and ethnic groups in Iraq than to form 'death squads' and special operations forces from two of the three key groups so that they can attack the third group? The Sunni already plan to boycott the national elections, so why not just eliminate as many of them as we possibly can? Does this plan not sound exactly like the earlier Rumsfeld plans? First, we disbanded the Iraqi army so that all of those Sunni soldiers could form small groups of resistance fighters. Next, we cracked down on Fallujah and sent all of the Sunni insurgents scattering throughout Iraq rather than keeping them centrally located. Now, we will just send in small death squads to knock off as many of them as we can. And we won't even have to get our hands bloody because we will just release the Peshmerga and Shiites on their sworn enemies. What better planning could we have? Uh...do I really need to answer that question?
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