The ‘Jezebel’ solution - Editorials/Op-Ed - The Washington Times, America’s Newspaper

The ‘Jezebel’ solution - Editorials/Op-Ed - The Washington Times, America’s Newspaper: “The ‘Jezebel’ solution”

“In the nearly one year I spent in Iraq after liberation, there was one enemy that consistently undercut our operations and stymied virtually all our finest plans: hope. Seductive, vain, treacherous hope. We placed our hope in democracy, believing that elections would bring unity to a fractured country and liberty to individuals. We hoped that, in joining the democratic process, different factions would begin to shed their sectarian or ideological aims and join together for the national good. We hoped that the militias would become civic-minded if only they would don the garb of the national police. We hoped that the worst of the Ba’athists would relent after the capture of Saddam Hussein and the death of his sons. “