Well, it is an idea anyway ...

The always thoughtful The Hon. Dr. St. Rev. Bradley S. Rocket, Esq, PhD, MD has an idea that might just have a chance...

I suggest a bold new strategy: we begin bribing insurgents not to kill people. For every week an insurgent goes without setting up a roadside bomb or opening fire in a crowded marketplace, that insurgent will receive $15,000 and a box of ho-hos. Given that there are roughly 70,000 or so insurgents in Iraq right now, I calculate that this plan will cost us $1,050,000,000 per week, or roughly half of what we’re paying to occupy Iraq right now.