[nikos1121]

You can’t have a democracy over night. Didn’t happen in Japan, didn’t happen in Korea, not in Germany.

We could have left enough troops in the country to stabilize things. Okay we didn’t, shades of Jimmy Carter.

So, instead of asking for Malaki to step down, let’s drop some ordinances on these bastards, and then talk later.

Mosul is gone. Fahlujah next... then Baghdad.

[Uncle Chip]

We could have left enough troops in the country to stabilize things.

We don't have enough troops to stabilize a Muslim country like Iraq -- period.

It went from Sunnis imposing their will on Shiites to Shiites imposing their will on Sunnis -- and that is not a stabilizable situation.