Very depressing news coming out of Iraq.
Are we better off with Iraq becoming an Al Qaeda state?
The media and liberals will spin this as Bush’s fault, because we should never have gone into Iraq in the first place.
But, Obama likes to talk about how he inherited difficult problems when he became president. His decision to withdraw as we did helped create the circumstances for Al Qaeda to gain strength in Iraq.
And Obama has frequently said Bin Laden is dead and Al Qaeda is on the run due to his policies.
How do these events square with Obama’s statements that Al Qaeda is on the run, and that due to his allegedly enlightened policies, that the back of Al Qaeda was broken???
Here’s my proposal:
Let’s go with history, not against it.
Iraq was an artificial country created by the British and the French. We have to re-do what they did.
Recognize three new countries — a Sunni west, Kurdish north, and Shia south.
If the western portion was truly an independent country, I think we could easily get the Saudis and other Sunni countries to back a pan-Arab peacekeeping force to throw out the radicals and set up a new, non-threatening government there.