Because the Iranians, Russians and Chinese will fill that space when we leave....
Because the Iranians, Russians and Chinese will fill that space when we leave....
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Correct.
...and personally, I’m okay with it.
But then again, I’m not up for re-election and I wont have the media slamming me daily with news reports about what a sh!th0le Iraq became when I withdrew our troops and ‘left them high and dry’.
Which I promise you, they WILL do. It doesn’t matter if they currently slam the president and other politicians for being in endless wars when they campaigned on getting out of them. Once your out, you own the consequences.
IF you don’t believe that, just as GW Bush.
He wasn’t in office for 8 months and the media worked tirelessly to make him (and only him, except maybe cheney too) OWN the September 11th attacks. Bush was so marred and scarred by it that he promised a world-tour war-on-terror, and we got it. Invasion of Iraq is the media’s fault, in my opinion. If they did fair, even handed, investigative journalism and looked into the true causes and sources of 9-11, instead of being political attack dogs, Bush would have gone after Bin Laden and others but likely not Iraq. I’m sure they’d disagree with me.
I’m actually for getting out of Iraq.
But if we do, I promise you, the effort to make Trump look bad at every tiny incident inside Iraq from then on forward will be relentless.
And the saudis don’t want a bigger closer iran.
and I’m totally fine with that because being involved there is a ruinous endeavor, as we experienced
Something we've known since long before going there.