[Lejes Rimul]

Well, I'm touched you think so highly of my - admittedly, well-informed - opinion. It's good to know I have fans.

We went into Iraq in part to ensure that the heart of the Middle East did not remain under the domination of an odious dictator, yet our policies from April 2003 are guaranteeing precisely the continued domination of Iraq by dictatorship, Iranian rather than Saddamite. Supporting an Iraqi government run by Shia Islamists is enabling Iran to become regional hegemon; Iran's current audacity about its nuclear program is in large part because we depend on its proxies and our hands are tied in Iraq.

Immediately after World War II, Patton wanted to rearm two divisions of Waffen SS and incorporate them into the Third U.S. Army. Once the Nazis were destroyed, he never took his eyes off the real enemies: the totalitarian Soviet empire. Patton said, "We can drive the Red Army back to Russia. With my Germans, we are capable of doing it." Get it?

[Treader]

That was a great summary of material you have already covered in this thread. My question to you was/ still is- "What should the US do next?"

[endthematrix]

"Iran's current audacity about its nuclear program is in large part because we depend on its proxies..."

That would be EU...

They and the Security Council sway way more US favor than recent Iraqi elections, lol!