I think the six year ago reference is to Iraq, right? I don’t see that as comparable. The reasons were much different.
“I think the six year ago reference is to Iraq, right?”
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Not just Iraq. We had the opportunity to take care of Iraq at the end of GW I...but we chose not to and it came back and bit us. We had the opportunity to take care of all these “...regimes implacable to peace” on Sept. 12, 2001, but again we chose not to and again we (or more precisely, our allies the Israelis) are going to get bitten.
We doom ourselves to Patton’s curse:
“The politicians always stop to soon, leaving us with yet another war to fight.”