IRAN. There was NO WAY we could have put boots on the ground in the middle east in their backyard with Saddam in power. Saddam flew his jets into Iran during Gulf war 1 for safe keeping. With Saddam out of the way we won't get blind sided by him should we have to go into Iran. You can't hit Iran and have a hostile force to your backs.
Iran is NOW sandwiched between our troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. If they tangle with us they're stuck in a 2 front war, and resupply for us is NOT a problem, because we own the airspace in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Gosh, I'm glad Im not the only one on the planet that can see that. (we got the gulf covered too)
And heres the bigger strategy:
If Iraq can be sucessfuly made into a democratic constitutional Rebublic(and that has been done but we have to hold it together) like Turkey, The ME will be divided by freedom from Turkey to the Persian Gulf
Maybe you misread what I wrote. I said as soon as
"we captured Saddam Hussein" we should have grabbed his ass and left. Thus, implying we could do same thing to Syria and Iran if they don't comply as Saddam didn't. Now neither fear us and our word is shi......