Washington’s strategy in Iraq is in shambles, but not just because America’s spanker-in-chief is really a wimp at heart. The problem is far more generic. To wit, the geographic territory of Iraq is not a nation; it is an arbitrary series of lines on a map drawn 100 years ago by dandies in the foreign offices of two fading empires (the British and the French) - which lines encircled numerous tribes, ethnicities and religious confessions which had no interest in sharing a common statehood.
In the subsequent century, the warring peoples corralled within the Sykes-Picot boundaries were ram-rodded into a tenuous co-existence by a series of brutal monarchs, generals and dictators, backed up by British and American occupiers. But then the neo-con geniuses in the George W. Bush Administration hung the last dictator and the poll readers in the Obama White House had the good sense to adhere to their campaign pledge and bug out.
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I haven't had time to read the source article yet but this history lesson on Iraq seems well worth further investigation. From the brief posted here, the infighting within Iraq, and the Mideast in general, begins to make some sense.
in this story there's a line that reads "They left behind $25 billion in military training and state-of-the-art warfare equipment". So let me get this straight. our government will hand this over to our enemies, but i can't even own a .22 that holds more than 5 rounds of ammunition? wow
1:45 All about you isn't it?
The fact is had we never gone into that hell hole we would be a lot better off.
I don't agree with Chris Mathews on much but befor we ever went into Irac I heard him on his tv show pleading with Bush not to invade Irac.He simply said to think if we would be better off for it in 10 years,well its been 10 years and it is one hell of a mess.
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