” When you go in to FREE a country from it’s dictator it leaves you precious little room to enact the brutal tactics needed to control a country.”
It would have taken the same determination and staying power that we showed after wwii in Japan and Germany, and perhaps the partitioning of Iraq into three states - Kurds, Shiites and Sunnis.
We were nowhere prepared to do that.
You are 100 percent right.
how do you crush a people you invaded to “liberate”
The three state solution would have been a great idea. Have Kurds as strong allies and keep a strong contingent force to keep the others from fighting each other.
Honestly, once we know Iran was supplying weapons AND killing Americans, it should have brought hell down on them. I guess the public was against it.
And now we reward them for killing American Soldiers.