Better to have followed Reagan in how to win a long war in the WOC [War on Communism].
Beware of the hijackers who want to post anything other than about Iraq, the subject of the article. 
All your thread belong to my agenda.
Posted on 03/03/2006 6:50:01 AM PST by RepublicNewbie
"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed ..." There may be a better description of what is happening in Iraq than the words of Yeats'. It does not come to mind.
Before President Bush ordered Gen. Tommy Franks to invade, four forces held Iraq together: Saddam's regime, the Baath Party, the secret police and the army. The conquering Americans, as has been their way from Sherman to LeMay, smashed them all.
The center that held Iraq together, repulsive as it was, is gone. But, the comment of Yuval Diskin, head of the Israeli security agency Shin Bet, may yet prove incisive: "I'm not sure we won't come to miss Saddam."
The Shi'ites have been the principle beneficiaries of our intervention. Liberated from Saddam's rule, under U.S. rules of one-man, one-vote they were, with 60 percent of the population, the certain inheritors of the estate. Yet, Shi'ite conduct calls to mind the remark of the Austrian prime minister after Tsar Nicholas I intervened to save the Hapsburgs from revolution in 1848: "We shall astonish the world with our ingratitude."
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I don't know why people doubt all those old people voted for Buchanan instead of Gore in Florida 2000, he is just as nuts.
As usuall, Pat is rooting for American defeat in Iraq.
He concentrates on whatever bad happens.
He spins things to amke them look as bad as possible.
He doesn't care about the successes in Iraq.
He doesn't care that overally the Iraqi government is moving forward and things are slowly improving there.
He's convinced he's right, just like the left is convinced that they are right, and the MSM is convinced that they are right.
In Bagdad a servant returned from the marketplace white and trembling. He told his master, "I was jostled in the crowd and when I turned I saw it was Death who made a threatening gesture. Lend me your horse and I will ride to Samarra where Death will not find me," and so the servant went to Samarra on his master's horse.
The master then went to the marketplace where he saw Death. "Why did you threaten my servant this morning?"
Said Death: "It was only a start of surprise. I was astonished to see your servant in Bagdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra."
Years later John O'Hara used this story for the title of his book, "Appointment in Samarra." The Turks when they controlled what is now Iraq before WWI treated it as three distinct provinces of their empire. The destruction of the Samarra mosque may be our appointment with the idea that Iraq is an artificial country that can be held together only by force.
Exactly.
Which makes me wonder why President George W. Bush was so quick to toss away the wisdom of candidate George W. Bush, who promised in October of 2000 that he would not use the U.S. military for futile exercises in nation-building.
Better to have followed Reagan in how to win a long war in the WOC [War on Communism].
Beware of the hijackers who want to post anything other than about Iraq, the subject of the article.
All your thread belong to my agenda.
While Pitchfork Pat has always loved TROP (and hated Jews/Israel/Neocons), there is no evidence that either Arabs or Muslims were particularly fond of the U.S. prior to the Iraq War. Quite a few jihadist terrorist attacks against Americans prior to the Iraq invasion.
If neocon is a codeword for Jews, perhaps paleocon is a codeword for demented.
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