Posted on 01/07/2014 6:14:28 AM PST by shortstop
Obama owns the lose of the Iraq war, period!
PFL
Just like ‘Nam: “We were winning when I left.”
Our politicians are feckless and corrupt.
All added together they are not worth a bucket of warm spit.
Weird article.
Taliban are taking over Afghanistan also.
Bu make believe weddings are what is most important.
-> Yes, the al Qaida flag flies over Fallujah today, but it does not fly over America.
Our CIC is working on that...
True. And he doesn’t care! A lot of those who died would have voted Republican anyhow.
That was the goal and it was not for the American people's gain.
The Syrian rebels Washington wanted to arm slunk across the border and, their jihadist passions embroiled, sought to defecate on the American legacy by claiming our bloodiest prize.
Syria is the be shattered next, using Al-CIA-duh jihadists as the ground troops. Uncle Scam has been giving them weapons and money and now Fallujah has been given to them as a cross border base of operations.
Not to mention Afghanistan.
I said back when we invaded Iraq, that we’d better be prepared to be there for at least 20 years, or else this would precisely happen.
We won the first and second Iraq war. What’s going on now is the third Iraq war and we’re not involved.
But if the author is correct and the war we fought was to keep them busy, are more 911 attacks coming? We’re not keeping them busy anymore.
This is Vietnam 1974. Democrats have a history of squandering the sacrifices of Americans. And they do so with pride and conviction.
We are broke. PERIOD
We still have troops in Germany and Japan. The good news is that the 2 countries and their people had a long history of structure as well as education-meaning hope. Does Iraq have any hope of that? We Had to leave.
I say turn the country over to the Chinese. Otherwise just turn over all captured weapons to the population.
Part of the answer is to drop silly, obviously untrue concepts like “extremist Islam” (which this author uses). We must admit that Islam is Islam. George Bush set us back at least 25 years in facing up to the issue with his “religion of peace” BS.
Islam simply is not a religion of peace. It is a totalitarian political system that uses religion as a beard, and it is completely incompatible with Western ideas of individual liberty.
Only when we admit what we are truly up against can we begin to have a rational conversation about what we do next.
“So, what’s the answer? Do we start all over again in Iraq? Did we really think we were really finished when we left Iraq?”
The answer is that we never should have gone in there in the first place as this “war on terror” can never be won just like the “war on drugs” can never be won. Face it, all you guys that were all ra-ra for us invading are finding out what anyone with a brain knew from the beginning which was that we would do the same thing we did in Vietnam (kill a bunch of natives lose a few of our own and then go home).
The man in the article has finally figured out that it was all a waste and that nothing has changed or will change. It does not matter who is in office as Bush was doing the same thing as Obama (and really there is not much difference between the two as far a how they have acted in office). Try and learn from this the next time some pol stands up and shouts that Amerika is in danger and we need to kill people.
This is what happens when you declare victory without destroying your enemy.
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