Everyone assumes we’ve “invaded” and “occupied” Iraq when in reality we’ve liberated Iraq and provided security for Iraq! It’s the false language of the left!
We’re in Kuwait since the gulf war because Kuwaitis ASKED us to be. I have a close retired Colonel friend that’s in Kuwait, owns his own security firm. Also does work in Jordan, on invitation!
We don’t “occupy” anyone. Japan is the closest thing that resembles that...and like Germany when we threaten to move bases to Poland or Taiwan...they scream bloody murder!
Contrast the nazis that TRULY occupied France...do you think they’d scream bloody murder when the nazis threatened to “pull out” or redeploy?
Historically, a country is 'liberated' from a foreign oppressor as France was liberated from Nazi Germany.
We occupied Iraq for a while then, in a big ceremony, turned over the keys so to speak.
Actually, I was thinking of how Jefferson didn't try to occupy Tripoli.
As for providing security...for whom? A whole lot of Iraqis have been killed.
Iraq, unlike Germany or Japan, is an artifice of British map-makers and not a 'nation' as such.
Binding the three Iraqi factions together with oil money may or may not work. It is nation building, something we chided Clinton on and something Bush directly opposed in 2000.