A Modest Proposal on Iraq

William Arkin in the Washington Post has an proposal for a change of policy in Iraq. He doesn't mean a change of administration, since he thinks the Dems do not have a fundamentally different view of national security. Here's what he wants:

I mean a demand for results. Enough already with the pleadings for money, with government officials lamenting the complexity of the world and the slow pace of progress. Enough with the technological marvels, the contractor bonanza, the endless reorganizations and the greater authorities handed down to bureaucrats and "operators" who live in the fiscal rather than the physical world.

He concludes, though, with this interesting observation:

And God forbid the Bush administration's failures feed the horde of 9/11 nuts and Rove- and Cheney-haters who subsist on a fantasy of government purpose, brilliance and conspiracy when in fact we face the greatest crisis of government incompetence and apathy in our history.

Let's get started on the Spirit of Balls Bluff.