Krauthammer on What to do in IraqMike Rappaport

Charles Krauthammer writes:

The U.S. should be giving Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki a clearultimatum: If he does not come up with a political solution in twomonths or cede power to a new coalition that will, the U.S. willabandon the Green Zone, retire to its bases, move much of its personnelto Kurdistan where we are welcome and safe, and let the civil war takeits course. Let the current Green Zone protected Iraqi politicians whotake their cue from Moqtada al-Sadr face the insurgency alone. Thatmight concentrate their minds on either making a generous offer to theSunnis or stepping aside for a new coalition that would.

Not exactly my proposal —  “The United States shouldthreaten [to pursue a policy of dividing the country into three autonomous regions] in order to get the Shia to agree to clamp down onthe Shia militias and to agree to an agreement on oil revenues with theSunnis — but not that far away either.