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I’d like to read the rest of this.
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You would believe anything I say. Thanks.
In this case, I was just making it up.
I do that a lot. Sorry I wasn’t more clear.
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I heard that the Iraqi government won’t allow an extension beyond the advertised pullout date in urban areas. So Dubya’s little Babylonian adventure will end, but not by any action of the War Hero himself.
But in his defense, he did declare major military operations over on the USS Abraham Lincoln 6 years ago. The Iraqi militia’s, al Qaeda, and the puppet government didn’t get the memo.
As usual, no real need to refute stupid arguments; just quote the arguments back to their originator.
To wit: IF the American people would have been willing to countenance intervention in Iraq to overthrow Saddam Hussein, there would have been no need to conflate–with absolutely not one shred of evidence–the Saddam regime with 9/11. Short version: Americans didn’t give a shit about Iraq; they did care about Al Qaeda.
IF we stay 15 more months instead of two or three, it will make absolutely no difference in the longer-term balance of power in the region or in the internal governance of Iraq. [Long term: Five years and more.]
Now that we know there was no connection…none whatsoever…between Iraq and 9/11, why should we care what happens to Iraq–in 3 months, 12 months, 18 months, 5 years, 50 years? And since the answer is that there is no reason, why are we staying to watch the takeover of a made-up country (“made up” from three disparate parts of the Ottoman Empire by Winston Churchill at the end of World War I) by the majority Shia, with the Sunnis in Anbar and the Kurds in Kurdistan?
There is simply no rationale for staying longer that stands up to even the least scrutiny–including having a strategic military base in the middle of the world’s largest concentration of oil resources, which I suspect was the “strategic thinking” behind the invasion of Iraq in the first place. (Whether that was ever feasible is debatable; but it surely isn’t now!)
Rather than spending his political capital by making the above announcement, Obama would actually increase it–all the more so if he simultaneously announced a plan to spend the money saved on military operations on implementing renewable green-energy sources on a large-scale, national-emergency basis. That’s the emergency, not Iraq!
(Pakistan may be a slightly different story.)