Iraq

[bdtex]

If we'd kept more than Embassy security troops there for another 10 years,does anyone really believe that it wouldn't have deteriorated after we left just like it is now? C'mon. It's the Middle East. Sectarian violence for centuries and all that. The same thing is gonna happen in Afghanistan. We can't fix shiite in the Middle East or Asia for that matter.

 

[Jen]

If we'd kept more than Embassy security troops there for another 10 years,does anyone really believe that it wouldn't have deteriorated after we left just like it is now? C'mon. It's the Middle East. Sectarian violence for centuries and all that. The same thing is gonna happen in Afghanistan. We can't fix shiite in the Middle East or Asia for that matter.

1. We should have gone into Afghanistan right after 9/11 and kicked arse big time and walked away with stern warnings that if pushed we would do it again. Then we should have left. Well before Bush left office. Collateral/ innocent damage to Afghani people. Yep. And we'd do it again.

2. We should never have gone into Iraq in the first place. Evil Saddam Hussein was bad, but he kept some semblance of order in the area.

3. Since that's water under the bridge and we DID go into Iraq, we should have followed what Bush had set up for leaving and not publicize our exact time and method of leaving (that's always a stupid thing to do) and we should have some formidable presence there now so what's happening now would have been snuffed out as it began. Not a good solution, but given our initial mistake of going in there, it would have been a better solution than what Obama has done.

 

[Queen Titania]

If we'd kept more than Embassy security troops there for another 10 years,does anyone really believe that it wouldn't have deteriorated after we left just like it is now? C'mon. It's the Middle East. Sectarian violence for centuries and all that. The same thing is gonna happen in Afghanistan. We can't fix shiite in the Middle East or Asia for that matter.

No but you can sure bloody stir it -

 

[Queen Titania]

1. We should have gone into Afghanistan right after 9/11 and kicked arse big time and walked away with stern warnings that if pushed we would do it again. Then we should have left. Well before Bush left office. Collateral/ innocent damage to Afghani people. Yep. And we'd do it again.

2. We should never have gone into Iraq in the first place. Evil Saddam Hussein was bad, but he kept some semblance of order in the area.

3. Since that's water under the bridge and we DID go into Iraq, we should have followed what Bush had set up for leaving and not publicize our exact time and method of leaving (that's always a stupid thing to do) and we should have some formidable presence there now so what's happening now would have been snuffed out as it began. Not a good solution, but given our initial mistake of going in there, it would have been a better solution than what Obama has done.

You should have bombed Saudi not Afghanistan -

 

[Jen]

You should have bombed Saudi not Afghanistan -

I know.
But either one made the point.

 

[Arkady]

If we'd kept more than Embassy security troops there for another 10 years,does anyone really believe that it wouldn't have deteriorated after we left just like it is now? C'mon. It's the Middle East. Sectarian violence for centuries and all that. The same thing is gonna happen in Afghanistan. We can't fix shiite in the Middle East or Asia for that matter.

Yep. Keeping a big presence there would just delay an inevitable shakeout, at the cost of tens or hundreds of billions of dollars per year. The sooner we got out and let the situation find its new equilibrium point, the better.

 

[Dawg]

what difference does it make

'O' armed Rebels in Libya/Syria and now they are known as ISIS and while they are murdering religious minority in Iraq 'O' is 'mulling' air strikes........'mulling'

Afghanistan has a Government........if they can't keep the lid on the kettle after our troops are gone........pot will boil over.