The United States complains that Iran is providing money and weapons to the "bad guys" in Iraq. Remember the many times the United States provided money and weapons to people fighting our enemies? It was our way of fighting our enemy while maintaining space for a plausible denial. Are we so naïve that we do not recognize that we are fighting Iran AND Syria?
If the “bad guys” really wanted the United States to leave Iraq they would let things settle down. The United States would congratulate themselves on a job well done and leave, maybe leaving a token force as we do so often. The “bad guys” could then comeback and takeover the country with minimal fighting while the United States talked about what we should do. They might even kill some of our token force since it would be unable to defend itself.
But Iran and Syria do not want the United States to leave. They want to keep us there using up our resources and giving them opportunities to kill our military personnel and to make us look weak. They are behind the problems in Lebanon for the same reasons. Israel is using up their resources and it is an opportunity for Hezbollah to kill Israelis.
The United States is in a quagmire. We cannot win and we cannot leave.
There have been stories concerning what happens if we lose in Iraq? How about war crimes trials of Bush and Rumsfeld and all of the generals who have been in charge of the fiasco? We are kidding ourselves if we do not think it could happen.
If the “bad guys” really wanted the United States to leave Iraq they would let things settle down. The United States would congratulate themselves on a job well done and leave, maybe leaving a token force as we do so often. The “bad guys” could then comeback and takeover the country with minimal fighting while the United States talked about what we should do. They might even kill some of our token force since it would be unable to defend itself.
But Iran and Syria do not want the United States to leave. They want to keep us there using up our resources and giving them opportunities to kill our military personnel and to make us look weak. They are behind the problems in Lebanon for the same reasons. Israel is using up their resources and it is an opportunity for Hezbollah to kill Israelis.
The United States is in a quagmire. We cannot win and we cannot leave.
There have been stories concerning what happens if we lose in Iraq? How about war crimes trials of Bush and Rumsfeld and all of the generals who have been in charge of the fiasco? We are kidding ourselves if we do not think it could happen.
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