What do you think we should do about these nations? (That is politically realistic.)
Resurrect Saddam?
Invading Iraq was the biggest blunder is US foreign policy history.
Oh, and Bush gave us ethanol and banned Edison light bulbs too.
There is no solution against barbaric Islam, including their moderates. The West either capitulates or goes all out and wipe them out with everything we have. Of course, that will not happen.
Nothing. Not our country, not our problem. Unless and until they’re a direct threat to us it simply isn’t our concern.
Unfortunately, I believe that saddam was a direct threat. But our involvement should have ended when he was swinging from a rope.
At this point its too late for anything but a strike on Iraq to prevent their going nuclear... ( which I doubt Obama will do) I think we are looking at decades of turmoil
Fox covered this tonight and did a good job. Obama must have pleased some Bush haters like Tea Party Terrorist by throwing away anything that was gained .... but history shows that weakness such as this ultimately leads to larger conflicts. Lets hope we will be ready when that conflict embroils us again.
Nothing.
We made a bad situation far worse by toppling the existing power structure. Secular dictatorships are the least worst option for Muslim countries.
Afghanistan should have been a punitive expedition and then out. We should have been gone by 12/2003.