Don't agree with all this analysis---I think our PERFECT handling of the Filipino Insurrection/Moro Wars shows that this approach to Iraq was feasible. But some of his points are correct. The main issue was that we never once, ever, should have conceded on the WMDs and switched gears. If there was no evidence, irrelevant. The line should always have been, we aren't going to war over WMDs, we're going to war over the POTENTIAL and THREAT of WMDs. If we find 'em, great, if we don't, even better. Next rat's nest.
I do think pitting one group against another only would have set up a British/India style Hindu/Muslim seething rage that would result in a mass resistance by all at an inopportune moment. But I agree that democracy might, or might not work. It's irrelevant, as long as they are on our side---or out of our way.
Hail the global caliphate, brought to you by the same spiteful, disloyal back-stabbers who brought you Ho Chi Minh City and Pol Pot--the American electorate.
The main issue was that we never once, ever, should have conceded on the WMDs and switched gears. If there was no evidence, irrelevant. The line should always have been, we aren't going to war over WMDs, we're going to war over the POTENTIAL and THREAT of WMDs. If we find 'em, great, if we don't, even better. Next rat's nest.You are so right. I've groaned out loud many times in the past few years watching Bush and the administration concede this issue. Which never should have been conceded.
The Democrats evolved a brilliant and very simple strategy to deal with any Republican, Conservative, RINO, Values, etc. candidate: on a head-to-head basis. They simply matched our candidate with one who was ideologically equal or better, and then they backed him up. They recognized that the average voter tends somewhat rightward on most issues, so that's where they ran. Our team wasn't smart enough, tough enough, or courageous enough to deal with the old "all court press." BTW, our coaching squad really was out to lunch.
The Democrat party, under this truly scary Rahm creep, and the equally shifty (note polite placement of the "f") Schumer are only wedded to left-wing loser socialist ideology after they win elections.
A damned shame that no one on the RNC reads ... or more likely ... believes what's on this site. There are at least 50 posters here who knew the score better than the RNC, Rove, Mehlman, Liddy, et al. These clymers should be benched immediately. Not only did they waste hundreds of millions of dollars in campaign funds, but they, quite needlessly IMO, put a group in power that could very well deliver ruin to our republic. Apparently they failed to notice we are in a death struggle with 200 million Muslims who want to kill, enslave, or at the very least convert us and make us live under their laws.
One could be forgiven for pointing out that a cataclysm of such historical proportions should at least get their attention. Pardon me, but it's a little like not showing up for the Siege of Vienna, or The Battle of Lepanto. They are that stupid.
Sure, It's a tradition. Every 8-year president seems to get shellacked 6-years out in the "Lame Duck" Mid-term. But this time, it's a lot more serious because we are in a World-Wide War our leaders were afraid to spell out. Finally we can join the chorus: "It's Bush's Fault."