A Man With a Plan

Joe Biden has a "new" plan to establish a government in Iraq.

There's one minor problem - there have been three elections there since January 2005. In the second a new constitution was approved - a careful balance between a national government and regional authorities. In fact, much of the Sunni opposition is built around the autonomy of the various regions of Iraq. The weaker the federal bond, the more the Sunnis lose, as the Washington Post explains here.

Another quibble - probably the only way Biden's plan could be implemented at this point would be if he raised and equipped an army and overthrew the current democratically elected government of Iraq. I don't think he could do it, so I suspect he has some other motivation for his actions.

Update: In an answer to an email, Foxnews' own milblogger Captain Dan Sukman offers his opinion on a somewhat related topic:

Nothing really exciting to write about over the past couple of days, so I figured I would spend some time answering in detail some of the e-mails I have gotten.

A huge number continue to ask if I think a civil war has broken out. For example, Steve S. wrote on March 17:

"Reading the news (traditional and non-traditional media) it seems Iraq is either in a civil war or going in that direction. I would like to know from someone like you who is there in the middle of all this, is the situation that bad?"

I have chosen to reserve judgment for the next 150 years. If in 150 years I return to Iraq and everyone in Baghdad is dressing up and reenacting all the violence that is occurring today, as a hobby, I guess you can then call it a civil war.