John Kerry's Secret Plan

You cannot make this up. Here is Kerry's plan to get US troops out of Iraq within one year (a 75% improvement over his previous plan to get US troops out within four years):

1. Increase international involvement
2. Appoint a "high commissioner" to work with Iraq
3. Convert security forces from American to Iraqi

Sounds great, right?

But does it sound familiar? It should, as Captain Ed points out:

Bush got the UNSC to unanimously endorse the occupation and the interim government. He has 31 nations involved in Iraq now. He's working with Muslim nations to provide security to the ever-courageous UN mission that bugged out a year ago, and possibly with Russia . . .

So what other international involvement is necessary -- France and Germany? Since when have those two nations become the center of world politics and sanctifiers of international legitimacy? Was it when France rolled over against the German armies in 1871 and 1940? When France failed to kick Hitler out of the Rhineland in 1936? When France betrayed Czechoslovakia in 1938? When France invaded the Ivory Coast in 2003? When Germany announced its imperial ambitions in the 1870s? When Germany started World Wars I and II? When German dissidents protested US missiles that thwarted Soviet expansionism in the 1980s?

The US (and Britain) could barely get the French to help liberate their OWN country in 1944-45, how can they be expected to help out now?

As for a high commissioner, what's the difference between high commissioner and Administrator? And isn't it a bit late, now that the Iraqi Governing Council has assumed sovereignty, to install an outsider as high commissioner. This is hubris gone mad: Kerry is saying either that the IGC cannot be trusted to run Iraq properly or that the whole Bush operation in liberating Iraq and installing an Iraqi government is a fraud that needs to be overturned by the US and the UN (the latter has already voted to approve the occupation and the interim government).

Finally, as to converting security forces, here's Captain Ed again:

No kidding. It's exactly what we have already been doing, and to that end involving NATO in training the new Iraqi security forces.

So Kerry's plan is me-too, but I'm not Bush. That's it. And that's not a reason to change presidents.