As recently reported in The New York Times, the U.S. military strategy of “Clear and Hold” — to clear violence-ridden neighborhoods of militias, insurgents and arms caches, and then hold them with Iraqi and American security forces — appears to be a dismal failure.
Our old friend Jerry Seinfeld found this out the hard way, as he tried to check into his hotel on a recent trip to Baghdad, to visit the “War About Nothing”:
Hotel Agent: I’m sorry, we have no hotels left standing up in this part of the City.
Jerry: I don’t understand, I made a “Clear and Hold” reservation.
Agent: I know, but unfortunately the hotels were all knocked down.
Jerry: But the “Clear and Hold” reservation keeps the hotel here. That’s why you have the “Clear and Hold” reservation.
Agent: I know why we have “Clear and Hold” reservations.
Jerry: I don’t think you do. If you did, I’d have a hotel room. See, you know how to clear the violent neighborhood, you just don’t know how to hold the violent neighborhood, and that’s really the most important part of the “Clear and Hold” reservation, the holding. Anybody can just clear out the neighborhood.
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