[Palter]

Those consequences should have been thought out once the idea of taking out Iraq was evolving.

Iraq was a natural buffer to Iran and a devil we knew.

However, all of that matters not to central planners who think they can bring peace and stability to a cursed land; no matter the cost to our treasure and citizen.

[AfricanChristian]

The US is about to make the same mistakes in Africa. It has a shiny new combatant command called AFRICOM. Libya was AFRICOM’s first outing and with the success of Libya there will be pressure to do something bigger in the near future.

I can see the US getting sucked into Sudan and Somalia (and possibly Nigeria) in a very big way within this decade.