“Can’t say who, but I hear of high level Iraqi problems coming down the pike that will, if fulfilled, reverse our gains in propping up their Gov’t. I’m sure others have heard the same things.”
I personally always thought it was a pipe dream to try to establish a western style democracy in the ME. I realize that sometimes bombs have to drop, and military forces deployed, but it seems a waste of time money and manpower to try to give a free hand to a majority that mostly seems to want to rev up old tribal grievances.
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To make matters worse, did you catch the little snippet by McCain last night about the Iran issue becoming a reality sooner than we think? Think he knows something? Hmmm.”
That’s hard to say. Maybe he does know something, or maybe it was political posturing. I say that because at this point, you don’t exactly have to be Madame Cleo to spot the pattern, and figure out what’s next.
“I personally always thought it was a pipe dream to try to establish a western style democracy in the ME. I realize that sometimes bombs have to drop, and military forces deployed, but it seems a waste of time money and manpower to try to give a free hand to a majority that mostly seems to want to rev up old tribal grievances.”
I think our goals in Iraq will eventually come to failure, not because we didn’t try, and certainly not because our military hasn’t done an exemplary job in a tough situation, but because I’m afraid we’ve been trying to give a Muslim nation something they don’t want.
I think we’ll pull out gradually after 2008, and leave it fairly stable. Then, in very few years, the Iraqis will either, though violence or a democratic process, they will soon have a strict Islamic government that will make the old Taliban proud, and it won’t be much of a friend of the US.
But I still think it might be stable enough a year from now that it might not have much impact on the presidential race.