[E. Pluribus Unum]

CRAZY CHARLES JOSEPH SCARBOROUGH ALERT!!!

[wjcsux]

Crazy Joe, I have the short simple answer for you. It was the misguided policies of Kennedy (Cuba), LBJ (Vietnam), Carter (the entire Middle East, Iran and the USSR) Clinton (the Middle East) and 0bama (everything he touched). The adults in between we’re stuck with picking up the pieces.

[ealgeone]

I could say it began with James Earl Carter, but I have to put the onus on one Barack Hussein Obama....ummm...ummm...ummm.

[RobbyS]

Bush’s democracy project was a cover of the real politics, which was to block Iranian expansion. It was thwarted by the failure to install an Iraqi government in place of Saddam’s, one which included the Sunnis, and by dissolving the army. It seems that there was division inside the Bush administration about what that government was to look like. We put in a viceroy instead, We needed a McArthur but didn’t have one on tap.

[hinckley buzzard]

In 2012 Iraq was peaceful, stable, and democratic-- or so Obama told us as he took credit for the state of affairs during the election campaign. Now suddenly it is Bush's fault even though he left office long before any of the current troubles began.

Scarborough was a sellout even before Bush though, so it all computes...I think...

[Eagles6]

Hey Joe, there’s some girl sleeping on your office floor. Oh, wait...

[PGalt]

AFP is FUBAR

FUBO

[caww]

Yemen is in flames, ISIL is on the march, Syria is apocalyptic, Iran is racing through Iraq, anarchy reigns in Libya, Jordan is on the brink, Turkey is slipping away, and America’s relationship with the Middle East’s only democracy has hit an all-time low.

[trebb]

This article is a testimony that sometimes “hindsight” means “the initial view one gets as he pulls his head partway out of his behind”.

[bert]

Real historians will remember W as the conqueror of Baghdad and Barack Obama as the black President that defamed the race

[Cronos]

I think the problem started with George Bush Senior on many counts:

1. He went after Saddam hussein -- Saddam was an evil dictator, but he was a secular evil dictator who was the enemy of the Irani Ayatollahs and Al-Qaeda and he threatened Saudi Arabia (the latter reason is why he is out), but if we let him keep Kuwait he would by now be killing off jihadis and have knocked out the ayatollahs and cowed the Saudis and Qataris
2. He didn't do more to engage the Russians after the fall of communism

And this was continued and exacerbated by Clintoon

1. He didn't fully engage with Russia -- when it was floundering under Yeltsin that owuld have been the time to be the magnanimous winner and made it our ally, like we did at the end of WWII with Germany and Japan
2. He gave too much to China andhelped fuel their rise
3. He didn't knock off the Taliban when he had the chance