Islamists taking over Iraq

Well, pacifism only goes so far. See Chamberlain, Neville. Bigger scale, I realize. But this region we speak of is grounded in instability. Egypt's Arab Spring with non-interference hasn't worked out well, has it?

 

Well, that's the problem. How are we going to get them to knock it off? The answer is, we won't. And as far as helping the Iraqi government, hell, we created it. We've picked leaders and guided things along the way. That hasn't worked out so well.

 

So basically what we've established in this discussion is that nothing works in that region. Interference always seems to backfire, and non-interference doesn't work either.

In which case, I'd rather err on the side of non-interference and save a ton of American lives and ton of American money. Just think what we could've done with that trillion dollars we pissed away in Iraq if we'd instead spent it here on improving infrastructure, education, health care or whatever. Such an unfathomably colossal waste.

 

But .... But .... Freedom is on the march!

 

According to the article I read in the Times this morning, the Pentagon estimates that hardcore fighters in Iraq only number 3,000 to 5,000. Using air power and drones would go a long way to helping the Iraqi army (which, admittedly, seems to need all the help it can get.)

Otherwise, what happens? Iran steps in and crushes ISIS. They're going to get crushed no matter what, so we might as well be the ones doing the crushing.

 

I dunno Britwrit. I'm old enough to remember that air power was going to crush the Viet Cong and then North Vietnam, too.

 

Wounded Warrior J.R. Salzman can be expecting a rectal probe from the IRS any day now.

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"You promised to fix the world's problems, yet you somehow lost a war THAT WAS ALREADY WON. How is that even possible. @BarackObama?!?"

 

When was the war in Iraq "won"?

 

It was always "won" in the minds of the people who started it. I can understand why a vet would not like to believe we lost, so I might cut one some slack, but for the civilians who began, supported, and now want to restart the war, I have no sympathy, only contempt.

 

Since America's on the cusp of being the world's largest oil producer, WTF cares what these religious wackos do to each other? Let them fight it out for the crown of Allah's favorite and we'll sit back and reap rising oil profits and get on with developing cleaner, greener energy for the 21st Century.

 

Pretty much where I am at. The landscape has changed. Let The Saudis take up the fight of protecting
their brothers. That said, we still need to be sure Israel is taken care of.