[Numbers Guy]

"Maybe Mr. Perle would like to be in the first wave of those who go into Baghdad."

Maybe Senator Hagel would like to be the target of a Saddam-provided terrorist Ebola attack.

As I said on the other thread, Scowcroft was scared to death of the Soviet Union breaking up. He was totally behind 41's "Chicken Kiev" speech, which warned of instability if the Ukraine left the USSR. He was also against going to Baghdad in 1991, again because he thought instability was worse than leaving Saddam in power.

Scowcroft has a mindset and it's not going to change in spite of the overwhelming evidence from the USSR's breakup and Saddam's continued reign of terror.

[sinkspur]

Scowcroft has a mindset and it's not going to change in spite of the overwhelming evidence from the USSR's breakup and Saddam's continued reign of terror.

Exactly. Scowcroft was running around, twelve years ago, warning of casualties, while James Baker was assembling a coalition.

Brent's never been one to inspire much confidence.

[tomahawk]

Scowcroft and Eagleburger are part of the reason Saddam is still in power, building nukes, VX, smallpox, etc., which he will give to jihadists to attack Tel Aviv and New York. They are part of the reason we need to go back. They are plum stupid when it comes to Iraq and the threat it poses. They want to wait until it's too late.

[cake_crumb]

Scowcroft is wrong about the Arab world. That region is not stable. A stable Mideast is a total fiction. The culture is stagnent, not "stable". In the final assessment, the only thing these people have left to give them any purpose in life is conflict and death. The daily bloodbaths over there prove it. When millions of people have nothing left except to make war....that's not a healthy thing for the West, which is stable but not "stagnent".