Maybe it would have been better to keep Saddam there.
You have to ask yourself if the killing and maiming of America’s best, and ruining the lives of their families, not to mention the squandering of trillions of dollars was the best use of our human and financial resources.
Maybe the better choice would have been to truly seal the southern borders, kick some drug cartel butt, and deal with the ROP right here at home.
We’re going to end up fighting them here anyway, George.
Agreed. Democracy is not right for this part of the world. They do best with an iron-fist secular dictator.
In a democracy, they will just vote the most violent Islamists into power.
Another story I read said pre invasion there were 1.5+ million Christians in Iraq, now less than 300k...
I would say that was a very poor decision...
Would have, could have, should have....
Saddam Hussein never bothered the Christians but George is still of the opinion that Islam is the ROP and he has never corrected himself.
No, it would have been better to maintain the situation our forces had established in 2008, including a strategic base there like we did in Germany post WWII.
Iraq, like Afghanistan, is a tribal and cultural mess, violent and Islamic, and a threat to both neighbors and to us if allowed to flourish uncontrolled.
It’s a good idea to keep a foot on the snake.
However, our democracy betrayed us by allowing the ignorant millions to put an evil narcissist into power, who has thrown away all the progress made during the time before he took office.
We should have stayed, and stayed strong, not for them but for us.
Is Libya better off without Qadaffy? You could have visited there just a short time ago, safely, and seen beautiful ruins. Now you’d be a fool to go there. Democrats are doing to the world what they’ve done to Chicago, Cook County, Illinois and America.