Iraq indeed WAS a big fat mistake.
“Iraq indeed WAS a big fat mistake.”
In hindsight yes, taking out Saddam did make sense at the time, he was a jerk thumbing his nose at agreements that he signed. Thinking that all that was needed to make Iraq a Jeffersonian Democracy was elections was INSANE. Iraq needed another dictator.
15 years of the War on Terror. What do we have to show. The Middle east is an even bigger basket case than it was in the 20th Century.
This sort of endless war without objective looks a lot like the war in Orwell’s “1984”.
“The war, therefore if we judge it by the standards of previous wars, is merely an imposture. It is like the battles between certain ruminant animals whose horns are incapable of hurting one another. But though it is unreal it is not meaningless. It eats up the surplus of consumable goods, and it helps to preserve the special mental atmosphere that the hierarchical society needs. War, it will be seen, is now a purely internal affair. In the past, the ruling groups of all countries, although they might recognize their common interest and therefore limit the destructiveness of war, did fight against one another, and the victor always plundered the vanquished. In our own day they are not fighting against one another at all. The war is waged by each ruling group against its own subjects, and the object of the war is not to make or prevent conquests of territory, but to keep the structure of society intact.”
(1984)
Another factor was the illogic. The 911 maniacs were Saudi nationals. Osama was a Saudi national. Sadam didn't allow terrorists to function in the old Iraq. GWB kissed up to the Saudis.
We didn't get real vocal back then, because everyone had wrapped the flag around ourselves and trusted that GWB would get this right.
Ooops.
“Iraq indeed WAS a big fat mistake.”
Only if you wanted a few hundred thousand muslim extremists targeting our schools instead of dying in Iraq. Me? I preferred killing them in Iraq and Afghanistan - which we did by the hundred thousand.
No mistake. Worth every penny. Don’t expect a Code Pink NYC leftist to understand, but I DO expect FreeRepublic posters to be smarter than Donald Trump.
Thats the thing about history it allows you to look back on things. Of course it was a mistake at this point.
Yes, but once we were there the withdrawal of our troops by the Head Muzzie in Charge was by far worse. now we have more troops in Iraque than Bush left.