[Alberta's Child]

The so-called "War on Terror" officially became a farce when the U.S. allowed the provisional Iraqi government to adopt a new constitution in which Islam is enshrined as the official state religion.

At that point, I suspect an awful lot of Republicans began to wonder if the U.S. was on the wrong side in the first Persian Gulf War all the way back in 1990.

Personally, I don't think it's a coincidence that the major beneficiaries of U.S. military campaigns overseas always seem to be major donors to the Clinton Foundation and real estate investment partners with the Bush family in Texas.

[cynwoody]

The so-called "War on Terror" officially became a farce when the U.S. allowed the provisional Iraqi government to adopt a new constitution in which Islam is enshrined as the official state religion.

At that point, I suspect an awful lot of Republicans began to wonder if the U.S. was on the wrong side in the first Persian Gulf War all the way back in 1990.

In retrospect, a better idea would have been to give Saddam to understand that he could not only overrun Kuwait but also Saudi Arabia, as long as gas stayed reasonable, and no nukes were involved.

The Royal Family would have high-tailed it to Switzerland, as Saddam fed the religious police through his wood chippers.

Result: secular Iraq, secular Kuwait, secular Saudi Arabia!

And AQ would still be hiding out in the mountains of Pakistan, not threatening to take over Iraq, having morphed into ISIS.

And then there's Libya. ISIS in control! An unforced error, if ever there was such!