“Had we let the sanctions regime collapse — which was what was happening when we invaded — Saddam would have restarted his WMD programs and would have continued in his ambitions to make himself the leader of a unified and hostile Arab state.”
I think it’s abundantly clear that Iraq will never be unified. If that were possible we’d have left a long time ago.
“I think it’s abundantly clear that Iraq will never be unified. If that were possible we’d have left a long time ago”
I think Iraq was unified in May 2003, When we stood down the augmentation forces and I was sent home, it was.
It was the invasion of foreign fighters and Al-Qaida that sparked the insurgency during the power vaccumn of 2003, it got worse in 04, 05, 06 because of mismanagement and the political climate here in America at that time.
It got better in 07,08... because of the elected government and the security offered by the surge....
Hopefully we don’t blow this opportunity to salvage success by doing something completely retarded like removing the troops ...