A long article on the GOP nomination contest, and no mention of the front runner?
Senator Cruz is correct. Deal with the cards in play.
No need to draw the joker.
The Iraq invasion was only nominally about WMD. To appreciate the real motivations, look at a map. A pro-American Iraq would put pressure on both Iran and Syria, promote "western" values in the region, and be able to keep a lid on Islamic extremism. Saddam would never have flipped to us (he wasn't Qadaffi), so he had to go.
The problem was not the idea, but its execution. Bush should have appointed a military governor to oversee Iraq's transition to democracy. The idea that the Iraqis could "never have embraced democracy" is ludicrous -- it just needs to be given a chance to take root.
You want proof? Look at the American experience with Japan after 1945. The Japanese had no history of democratic governance. Yet Japan is today the strongest, richest, most pro-western country in Asia. Why? Because Doug MacArthur served as its military governor for five years, inculcating American values and procedures into the fabric of Japanese life. He completely wiped out the aggressive, militaristic Bushido culture and established a permanent, American ally in a crucial region of the world.
When it comes to nation-building, we do it for ourselves, not for the nation-built. It was in our interests to topple Saddam and install a pro-western Iraqi government. The Bush mistake was to quit the job while only half-way there. Then when Obama took over, everything went straight to hell (and continues on that path to this day.)
Assad is responsible for many dead Americans in Iraq when for years he allowed the terrorists to stage out of Syria and into Iraq.
I was a big GWB supporter until he got cold feet and wouldn't go into Syria and destroy the WMDs that were moved into the Beca Valley by barack hussein {and GWB knew it}. Arabs don't want, nor can the savages handle, any form of democracy.
Until the 7th century political/religious/economic system called islam is dismantled, the Arab countries will be second or third world countries.
The only reason they are not all still living in tents, is because of oil.
The savages haven't done anything since before mohamed became the profit.
NUKE ALL TERRORIST SAVAGES; LET allah SORT THEM OUT.
Gee, what happened between 2006 and ‘08? Couldn’t be that Nancy Pelosi was sworn in as Speaker in Jan ‘07?
Insert the Church Lady ... “Could it be... Satan?”