(No.. no, of course not - it's all.. well, it's - -)

It's an Allegory!
Lampoon of the exit-strategy from Iraq -
performed by the same boy scouts as spawned the entrance-strategy.
He who is One-Down ... 'bargaining' As. If.

{Rough Draft}

Scenario
[Some Rep for the US] meets [finally ...] with a Rep of each of the (so-far identified) factions and opens with ~~

US Rep:
Look, you-all want US outta here; know what? - so do we.
Will you just promise next, to play nice and get together and make a government and stuff - if we go away?

Insurgents 1 through n:
Why should I/we want to do that?
You never asked for permission to trash the place -
And we kinda Like the fact you're finally getting asses whupped ... and - -

US Rep: {sigh}
Ok, O.K. Already - look, let's modify this voluntary agreement we know you're anxious to sign, a little bit:
play nice for say, 60 days.
Wouldn't it be worth that to get US outta here?

... [please; pretty Please?]

Insurgent #42:
We want damages - have your people call my people.
And.. we want Mr. Bring-It-On to put on that flying suit, personally deliver the gold on that fancy aircraft carrier (it'll be too heavy to send in by air, anyway.)


Well, something like that.


Always appreciate hearing your charming vignettes from the Suited jungle. So many of them seem to be just slightly removed from the Aeneid, only.. the One-Down characters imagine that their position is tenable. And special.

Jeez, with your book and Box's on NYT Best Seller list -- IWE could pay dividends! and we could design the logo for the Company Jet, talkin like Pirates. (Screw Larry Ellison's King-size bed on that boring 747 ego-duel thing with [Some Other Rich Guy.] -- I've got a design involving piranhas, aerogel and Jello\ufffd.)