>> We did not enter Iraq in ‘03 for clear, entirely justifiable purpose
Yeah, but everyone in the Senate except for Obama (ironically) voted for it!
“Yeah, but everyone in the Senate except for Obama (ironically) voted for it!”
Did the Illinois Senate vote on the Iraq War?
They did, but I myself was unconvinced. I always felt that it was an unrelenting sales job that they could somehow not turn off once they got on their own bandwagon. I felt then and I feel now that if we were willing to “conquer” Iraq and attempt to Democratize as a sort of a science-fair project, that an absolute minimum of 50 years of nontrivial US presence would be required, and that given the intolerance of the folks over there that you could make that 100 years. And I knew that that was therefore a dopey proposition bound to fail.
One can partially make the accusation that US intervention in Iraq from ‘03 is in large part responsible for what is happening over there. Like it or not. Perhaps these annihilators and exterminators of infinite blood lust would have arrived at this state by their very own actions. Who knows, who cares, we can not understand them and there isn’t much to gain in my view from trying to understand them. They really, really, really are pre-medieval savages who want to kill us and they really, really, really hate us, and they really, really, really would go to any lengths, that they have now or that they may acquire or derive in the future, to destroy anything that is not them. Right now, tomorrow, and next week and next month and next year, that would include us. We are on their kill list. It is no more complicated than that. The nuances are useless.
It is not out of fear that I posit that we will soon be facing a war of annihilation from this scourge. It is from certainty.