The Solution for Iraq
If We Can Invoke the Rational Self Interest of Every Single Iraqi Towards Fighting These Terrorist Insurgents, it Will Be Won and Iraq Will Remain a Country
The mess in Iraq is dragging on way too long and Americans are growing weary of it. The main reason is that al qaeda ( the global islamofascist terrorist factions ) and Iran have combined forces to try to see that the U.S. loses everything there. We're hearing that Iran has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into the Iraq insurgency movement from their end.
So what's the solution? Keep U.S. troops there for another ten years? There's even talk of dividing Iraq into three separate countries now, which is not acceptable to anyone who doesn't want this effort lost. It would be a last ditch effort to prevent a civil war.
But I think I've just thought of the perfect solution. Rational self interest.
If we can invoke the rational self interest of every single Iraqi towards fighting these terrorist insurgents, it will be won and Iraq will remain a country.
How can that be done?
Oil.
All of Iraq's rich oil resources were previously controlled, owned if you will, by Saddam Hussein, who abused them for his evil ends. Among libertarians and Objectivists, I hear suggestions that the oil resources should now be privatized, but to whom? If they were sold off to the highest bidder, who would get the money from the sale? And then they could just wind up with big corporations using the oil for corrupt purposes to politically dominate the country.
No, I have a much better, much more elegant solution that will seize the self interest of each and every Iraqi and get them to unite like never before to save their country.
Give every adult Iraqi an equal number of shares of ownership in Iraq's oil resources and the profits from its sale, payable yearly.
This will give every Iraqi a rational self interest in shutting down the terrorist insurgents, stopping all interference from outsiders, and putting aside sectarian differences so they can all cooperate towards making their yearly oil incomes.
I think this would be the perfect solution to a problem that promises to remain a terrible mess unless this is done.
Published by Melissa Rhiannon
Born and grew up in Miami FL area, moved to Denver area at age 31. Founder and author of The Planetary Bill of Rights Project. View profile
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Post a Comment[q]Give every adult Iraqi an equal number of shares of ownership in Iraq's oil resources and the profits from its sale, payable yearly[/q]
"Equal" sounds kiddish.
What happens if these Iraqi shareholders discover the joys of relentless pursuit of more oil money? Will they begin killing each other in an effort to gain more shares? Will those who truly believe in the jihad funnel their oil profits to the terrorists? Will Iraqi oil profits be enough or will they soon their eye toward Kuwait again and their oil? The truth is that rational self interest in the pursuit of the common good is reliant upon two things sorely lacking in human beings: rationality, and the willingness to put aside self-interest at any time.