Afghanistan may have lit this fuse but it certainly wasnt planned.
And “baited Iraq” is nuts. Saddam did what he wanted to do since the 1970s. He had what he thought was the most powerful army he was ever going to have, after it beat Iran.
As for baiting Putin, thats also nuts.
There are conspiracies in this world, but the real ones are conducted by flawed men with human incompetence and no better foresight, or ability to plan a decade ahead, than us groundlings.
And “baited Iraq” is nuts. .... As for baiting Putin, thats also nuts.
***Yup. It had me shaking my head.
I was around and following the news back then. Do a deeper search into our "nod, nod, wink, wink" by the HW Bush crowd.
Sure Sadaam made the final decision, but not till after we indicated we had no dog in the fight.
And do you think Putin would have been this aggressive with a Donald Trump in the White House?
We'll never know - and neither do we know if we enter WWI with a president other than Wilson.
We told Saddam we wouldn’t intervene if he invaded Kuwait. He invaded Kuwait, we intervened.