Taken from his NY Times column today:
It’s time for the Bush team to admit it made a grievous error in disbanding Iraq’s Army – which didn’t even fight us – and declare: “We thank all the nations who offered troops, but we think the Iraqi people can and must secure their own country. So we’re inviting all former Iraqi Army soldiers (not Republican Guards) to report back to duty. For every two Iraqi battalions that return to duty (they can weed out their own bad apples), we will withdraw an American one. So Iraqis can liberate themselves. Our motto is Iraq for the Iraqis.”
I think it’s a very interesting idea. Of course, if we were to do it, depending on the sympathies of the soldiers who re-up, the door is open for a religious takeover of Iraq. That isn’t what our soldiers died for. But better ideas are few and far between right now.