No. At the heart of the problem is the American left and some Republicans, Eliot A. Cohen among them, who lobby for action and then, once we are committed, undermine our efforts.
Iraq could have been over in 3 years if they hadn't turned on the war.
Goes back before that too. For over half a century, some on the left aided, abetted, apologized for and were on the take from enemies of America. The history of the 20th century is the history of treason.
How they will finesse this with Obama in office, I don't know. But I'm confident if we do take action, America will be slammed by many of the Americans who now are calling for action.
Not making the call to ignore the problem. Iran should have been dealt with years ago. Bush tried to get it started with his Axis of evil speech and the reaction to that was ridicule and accusations he lied.
The writer of this article, Eliot A. Cohen is Exhibit #A in all this. He was vocal in his support of action against Iraq. I agreed with him. Then, once we were committed, once American lives were on the line, he turned on Bush and the war in Iraq. Everything we did was wrong. Bush blundered. Bush was full of happy talk. Bush didn't admit to errors.
So what do we do? Darned if I know. We should end Iran's nuke program of course. But, I suppose, we just have to be prepared now that it is likely Eliot A. Cohen and certain those on the left side will say we screwed it up once we do.
Thanks for your input. I couldn’t remember Eliot Cohen
He and all the NeoCons were trying to blame any and everyone because Iraq didn't go the way they said it would go.