Win the war and free them?
We could try and trade the prisoners we’ve taken for them. Other than that I’d say you hit the nail on the head.
The same thing we do every night, Pinky, try to take over the world.
Surrender? 
Admit that the cocky, overconfident “we will win the war within two weeks with our impressive shock-n-awe bombing campaign” pre-war predictions were nothing more than jingoistic masturbation?
Winning the war in two weeks remains a perfectly reasonable objective. It’s been going on for five days and they’re already on the outskirts of Baghdad.
Pray and ask God for forgiveness for sending those folks out there in the first place.
Bath in our self-satisfaction over the war not going as smoothly as experts predicted?
I am glad the “shock-n-awe”* that was being peddled by the media turned out to be BS myself.
My prediction was that our strategy would be to let the Iraqi soldiers surrender in droves. We tried that. It worked very well in some cases. Some units left their positions and went home. Others surrendered. Now, of course, surrender will be more difficult since the ruses used by the Iraqi militias or soldiers yesterday.
Rolling up the nation strategically went almost without a hitch. Now, unfortunately, comes the part every realist dreaded–blasting the hardcore holdouts, and the, ugh, siege on Baghdad, Tikrit, Basra, etc. Maybe there are more or less holdouts than I thought there would be. But, to tell the truth, I was not making predictions about who would surrender beyond many of the conscripted units.
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You may be self-satisfied, but I’m not. I find nothing satisfying about this whole fiasco.