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@michaelgraham, where has this wonderful neocon perspective on Iraq been? You are exactly right! We should have stayed and done for Iraq what we did for Japan, Korea, and Germany. We had no strategy for exiting these countries. It’s time to push back on the revisionist history that has given us the current isolationist moment. Iraq was on its way to stability and modernization when Obama pulled out all of our troops.
A herd of buffalo, a school of fish, a flock of sheep, a caravan of illegals?
@michaelgraham , I’m a few days late (I’m on a 1-week delay of listening to podcasts), but I wrote a post about the hot dog/sandwich debate a while ago. Be warned, it also contains opinions about ketchup that you likely disagree with.
If they need asylum, why can’t they ask for it in Mexico?
Sounding Trumpy. Just don’t say, ‘s–thole.
As Rep. Joe Wilson says, ‘You lie!’ I was never for them.
I happened to be throwing away some old Weekly Standards the other day, and I came across an article about Iraq from 2011. Turns out, even while the troops were still there, Obama was already screwing up Iraq. An election had resulted in what amounted to a tie between a more secular coalition, and the Shiite party — and Obama backed the Shiite party!
It seems insane but, then again, it’s consistent with Obama’s backing Shiite Iran, later on. I think it’s because, to a progressive, the more anti-American side is always the more “authentic“ side.
P.S.: I often like to ask a trick question — How long did we have to leave American troops in Germany and Japan to ensure the success of democracy after World War II? It’s a trick question, of course, because the troops still there …