Posted on 07/03/2014 8:34:30 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
To understand why Iraq is imploding, you must understand Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and why the United States has supported him since 2006.
I have known Maliki, or Abu Isra, as he is known to people close to him, for more than a decade. I have traveled across three continents with him. I know his family and his inner circle. When Maliki was an obscure member of parliament, I was among the very few Americans in Baghdad who took his phone calls. In 2006, I helped introduce him to the U.S. ambassador, recommending him as a promising option for prime minister. In 2008, I organized his medevac when he fell ill, and I accompanied him for treatment in London, spending 18 hours a day with him at Wellington Hospital. In 2009, I lobbied skeptical regional royals to support Malikis government.
By 2010, however, I was urging the vice president of the United States and the White House senior staff to withdraw their support for Maliki. I had come to realize that if he remained in office, he would create a divisive, despotic and sectarian government that would rip the country apart and devastate American interests.
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“I find it hard to believe that Al Qaeda had encampments all over that region and Asia and Africa, but somehow not a one in Iraq.”
Why? Saddam’s brand of laissez-faire Islam is anathema to Al Qaeda. The money to fund the radicals, and fifteen of the hijackers, were from our dear allies, the SAUDIS. Iraq had no Al Qaeda camps for the same reason we had no Nazi Party in 1944.
We (by “we” I mean the Useful Idiot Democrats and Liberals), stuck with Obama, and lost Iraq.
It is what it is. So time to divide Iraq into three countries. But only after radical Jihadists are crushed.
“Saddam was a SOB. He shouldn’t had invaded Kuwait. That said, we shouldn’t had taken him out.”
He was the same SOB we armed to the teeth. The fact that we crushed him to restore a Muslim fundamentalist monarchy to their throne is absurd. I know people who went their for that; they were told to conceal any crosses they wore around their necks (for fear of offending the Muslim hosts they were prepared to die for).
“It is what it is. So time to divide Iraq into three countries. But only after radical Jihadists are crushed.”
We’ve lost there and Afghanistan already; we can’t beat them while pretending Islam is a religion of peace. We can’t beat them in our own country.
“He shouldn’t had invaded Kuwait.”
Putin shouldn;t have annexed the Crimea, but he did. Because he isn’t a weakling, we won;t do anything at all about it. Anyone who mocks Neville Chamberlain for the appeasement of Hitler need only look at this to get an understanding of how it works. Remember when Obama told Putin he’d have more flexibility after the election? What was that about? Ukraine?
I guess you will just have to live in your world of belief and me and the rest of the world in mine.
“I guess you will just have to live in your world of belief and me and the rest of the world in mine.”
No problem; keep your family safe in your world.
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