Iraq unravels!

[piece-itpete]

Nice try. For the 8 millionth time the ONLY thing I have advocated was ARMS AND AID.

But if it makes you all feel better by putting words in my mouth knock yourselves out. It shows a lack of facts.

Pete

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

Nice try. For the 8 millionth time the ONLY thing I have advocated was ARMS AND AID.

But if it makes you all feel better by putting words in my mouth knock yourselves out. It shows a lack of facts.

Pete

There were (well-founded) concerns of these weapons falling into the wrong hands (ISIS), as has proven true in Iraq with the Iraqi army we trained, supplied and funded for over a decade abandoning their high-tech American weaponry tout-de-suite.

You gotta get the notion out of your head that we have the capacity to bend this area (or any area) to our will and once bent, they'll magically transform themselves into a Jeffersonian democracy and it will all be peace, love and understanding.

If $2 trillion and thousands of dead didn't work in Iraq, why would a few odd weapons work in Syria? BTW, even the currently very well-armed ISIS (with captured American tanks and artillery) is largely ineffective against Assad with his airpower. The only way to have ensured their success against Assad would have been to do it for them as we did in Iraq against Saddam. However, we didn't have the Russians to contend with in Iraq as we did in Syria. They would have poured even greater support into Syria to support their only port outside of the former Soviet Union.

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by finnbow

If $2 trillion and thousands of dead didn't work in Iraq, why would a few odd weapons work in Syria?

It will be a cakewalk.

We will be greeted as liberators.

The oil revenue will pay for it all.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

It will be a cakewalk.

We will be greeted as liberators.

The oil revenue will pay for it all.

NeoCon's still believe it while wanting us to buy into their silliness that Obama caused the current mess in Iraq. It seems to me that the only one who correctly predicted what's currently happening and what could have been done to prevent it was Joe Biden in 2006. Needless to say, the NeoCon's criticized him brutally for his frank and prescient views.