That’s my point. Can’t leave the compound and go out for a a drink with friends after 16 years.
After 16 years in Germany we were raising a whole generation of German-American kids.
Civilization vs. 6th Century koranimals.
Well, YOU can fly over and go out on the town if you want but just figure there’s a whole bunch of Ba’athists and opposing Shia militants who are still settling things. Whereas after WWII Germany was mostly depopulated of military-aged males. The Germans were burned out.
WWII Germany and present day Iraq have about the same population. We’d have needed to kill +5 million Iraqi males to bring Iraq to the level of demographic defeat Germany was in 1945.