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The waste it lays is no longer her problem. This was how she left Vietnam after years of fighting there.
After years of shoulder to shoulder fighting, their friends were left to the Communists in a heartbeat. "
Actually, JFK screwed Vietnam much earlier by supporting a coup against Diem.
Bay of Pigs, anyone?
Because the Kurds in northern Irak had already militarized. They will confiscate the heavy weaponry left over fdreom Saddam's forces. They will be stronger.
They will put together their own regime in the area.
They may demand land from Turkey.
You're either going to give it to them or you're going to have to fight..."
You'll have to forgive me if I don't believe this story one bit.
That doesn't sound like US policy, that sounds like a prediction that any of us could have made. It sounds like a reasonable warning from one friend to another. It didn't exactly turn out that way, but that is still your fear, that a militarized Kurdistan might threaten eastern Turkey.
And it was a reasonable prediction, in 1991, that the US wasn't going to occupy Iraq. I could have told you that then. We were still wrapped up in our VietNam phobia, and even though we pulled it off with only 100 dead (out of a million total troops in the theater, between theirs and ours) we still feared to enter Iraq's heartland.
This Bush is not his father. His father did not believe in anything, nor did anyone in his cabinet. This one does. And I will predict that we are not leaving Iraq after the war, because we have other strategic fish to fry. Nothing to do with oil. Everything to do with 9/11.
But you are right when you point out that all bets are off if Bush is not re-elected. Put people in power that don't believe in anything, and you will get what you get, a declining power, feckless, self-absorbed, cynical, fearful, weak. If such a government reflects the kind of people that elect it, its not a pretty picture. Its obviously not the America I believe in. We live in momentous times. A lot turns on the next couple of years. We have to act, and we have to act from courage. We haven't had anyone demand courage from us in a long time. We haven't had many leaders who themselves had courage either, such men being rare in high office.
But at this moment, as we are poised overlooking the road to Baghdad, we do.