I can imagine what is said behind the scenes between people like him and Krauthammer. We are seeing things in our life time that I thought I’d never see.
Once we left Iraq, there were no good choices. Look at post war Japan and Germany. It took years to bring stability in there. I would thing the people in Iraq for once had hope for the good life, now there is nothing but pain and darkness until someone comes out on top.
It pains me to think that we now are putting more troops in there to fight the enemies of our enemies. What is this guy going to do when the political war becomes even more heated, ie when Baghdad is attacked?
Once we pulled out, we pulled out. Bad decision, but I can’t see us going back in until the enemy is identified. The enemy is Islam, pure and simple. Until that’s understood, the ME there is madness.
“Look at post war Japan and Germany. It took years to bring stability in there.”
The situation in the ME will never be resolved! Short of a nuclear holocaust, the Islamists will be doing the same $hit 100 years from now. Just too bad Israel is in there.
That is true! BTW did you hear that Michael Savage thinks that ISIS is actually the ally of both us and Israel?
Gargantuan differences in how we occupied Germany and Japan versus how we occupied Iraq guaranteed we would never bring about a favorable change in Iraq even if we stayed there two hundred years. From the very beginning in Iraq we allowed islamists to continue to execute Muslims who violated tenants of Sharia Law with impunity. And we never reached a point of clamping down on that. This meant that whenever a Muslim became disenchanted with Islam and left the faith or married outside Islam they could be and often were executed for their decision. You can't affect a change in their society if you allow anyone who does change to be killed. Our occupation was a waste of lives because we never were willing to do what was required. The diplomats mortally saboteged the effort at the outset, and most Americans were too clueless or uninterested to see it. Even if you sat them down and explained how this would go. I had hoped America might wake up, but it never has.