“we only feel the wonderful peace, which we have missed for more than a decade now, since 2003.”
They have no gratitude towards the freedom the Americans fought and died to give them. Ungrateful bastards.
Some people were doing well under Saddam. Every dictator has loyalists.
"War? What is war? We've been at war for 30 years" (referring to Iran).
Her eyes darted about. She covered her face and disappeared into the crowd.
“They have no gratitude towards the freedom the Americans fought and died to give them. Ungrateful bastards.”
The freedom they (the Sunni’s) had quickly dissolved after we left,into Shi’a control of Iraq with no Sunni input at all. It wasn’t a unity gov’t, it was a Shi’a dominated gov’t with a powerless Sunni minority. The Sunni’s, having once been in power themselves, weren’t going to live with that for too long and hence the rebellion today. The Kurds weren’t happy with the Shi’a either and will now break away also.
The country will end up partitioned or Sunni controlled again, by another strongman like Saddam, only more religious than secular. The Kurds will go their own way. The Shi’a are sheep in Iraq by nature. Iran might try to step in to help their Shi’a satelliate state that Iraq has become. What we did or didn’t do in Iraq is a moot point, as these groups were never going to get along, and the proof is in the pudding.
“They have no gratitude towards the freedom the Americans fought and died to give them. Ungrateful bastards.”
You just nailed the crux of the problem in your above comment; ~ Americans fought and died to “give” them. Freedom is hard. Freedom has to be earned, has to be fought for to gain and has to be fought for to keep.