15 June 2007

Joe Biden's Iraq Plan

At least Biden has an idea for a solution to the problems in Iraq.



A Five Point Plan for Iraq

1. Establish One Iraq, with Three Regions

  • Federalize Iraq in accordance with its constitution by establishing three largely autonomous regions - Shiite, Sunni and Kurd -- with a strong but limited central government in Baghdad
  • Put the central government in charge of truly common interests: border defense, foreign policy, oil production and revenues
  • Form regional governments -- Kurd, Sunni and Shiite -- responsible for administering their own regions
2. Share Oil Revenues
  • Gain agreement for the federal solution from the Sunni Arabs by guaranteeing them 20 percent of all present and future oil revenues -- an amount roughly proportional to their size -- which would make their region economically viable
  • Empower the central government to set national oil policy and distribute the revenues, which would attract needed foreign investment and reinforce each community's interest in keeping Iraq intact and protecting the oil infrastructure

3. Convene International Conference, Enforce Regional Non-Aggression Pact
  • Convene with the U.N. a regional security conference where Iraq's neighbors, including Iran, pledge to support Iraq's power sharing agreement and respect Iraq's borders
  • Engage Iraq's neighbors directly to overcome their suspicions and focus their efforts on stabilizing Iraq, not undermining it
  • Create a standing Contact Group, to include the major powers, that would engage Iraq's neighbors and enforce their commitments

4. Responsibly Drawdown US Troops
  • Direct U.S. military commanders to develop a plan to withdraw and re-deploy almost all U.S. forces from Iraq by the end of 2007
  • Maintain in or near Iraq a small residual force -- perhaps 20,000 troops -- to strike any concentration of terrorists, help keep Iraq's neighbors honest and train its security forces

5. Increase Reconstruction Assistance and Create a Jobs Program
  • Provide more reconstruction assistance, conditioned on the protection of minority and women's rights and the establishment of a jobs program to give Iraqi youth an alternative to the militia and criminal gangs
  • Insist that other countries take the lead in funding reconstruction by making good on old commitments and providing new ones -- especially the oil-rich Arab Gulf countries

All in all, not a bad plan. Biden is showing himself to be a good choice in the Demos. corner.


CHUQ

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sunnis would strongly refuse Federalization, because they is not a drop of oil under the Sunni's feet...

A shiite state or province means an Iranian state, in fact, the south has already become under the Iranian flag

the Shiite won't give the Sunnis a 0.1% of oil revenues as soon as Shiite guaranteed their safety by an Iran Warranty.

Baghdad would become unsolved complex, both Sunnis and the Shiites would fight to death about it.

check my blog: http://worldfingers.blogspot.com/

CHUQ said...

I agree with you that the situation is very complicated, but somewhere somehow a solution must be found. Ideology aside, the people should be the only concern.

I have offered a small plan that could possibly work.

http://studiesandobservations.blogspot.com/2007/05/another-plan-for-iraq.html

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