[Light Speed]

The concern from my vantage point Gramps is the same reality that plays out in Israel.....Israels neighbours are treacherous,they allow all manner of assets and weapons to cross their borders in the 24hr machination of destroying the Jewish state.

I look at Iraq and her neighbours and just wince....their all treacherous.

Some situations become multi-layered for those who dream of toppling govs...and one gov in the region is very vulnerable..that being Jordan.

Yassir..the Fatah,,,Hamas[Palestinanian version of Hizbullah],Islamic Jihad..etc...want to put the young King in a pine box if they can.
Now he is in the way of the "Peoples" comming to free the besieged Iraqi's.

Even if the Iraqi's settle into a quasi relationship with a gov set in place by the U.S....the other Islamic nations surrounding Iraq will have hordes marching in their streets chanting "America has bewitched the Iraqi's...the Americans are making the Iraqi's dogs just like the Zionist want"..type thing.

So like Vietnam...insergents will slip into Iraq...and do what terrorists do..and then hunkerdown after to tell stories after their little terror ops...trying to win the confused Iraqi's back to pure Islam.

The other side of this nightmare is that a certain percentage of Iraqi's actually want the U.S. to go...and here you have a Vietnam repeat.

Will Iran be content to leave Iraq alone?

Can Jordan stop the pyscho terror orgs from the Palestinian realms from entering Iraq?

Will Syria reign in Hizbullah ,Al Qeda and other terror orgs in south Lebanon?

Time will tell...

[PhilDragoo]

Yes, the parallels between Israel and Iraq are apparent.

It's a very, very bold thing we do--something no one, not 41 or 42, no one would have thought, let alone do.

It's epic and fraught with danger.

But the thought of freedom is a mustard seed.

[Grampa Dave]

So in ten years we have to repeat the process. There will be problems and bad people forever on this planet.

We can't allow the Opecker Islamofacists to finance terrorism around the world and hold us in constant terror.

The Arabs for most parts hate each other. If they want to kill each other of and not hurt other innocents, so be it.

[dennisw]

The concern from my vantage point Gramps is the same reality that plays out in Israel.....Israels neighbours are treacherous,they allow all manner of assets and weapons to cross their borders in the 24hr machination of destroying the Jewish state.

Such as the Rafah refugee camp where Rachel Corrie met the bulldozer. Egypt does nothing to stop Egyptian arms smuggling into Rafah camp then into Gaza. Egyptian authorities are very happy to see this happening.