That was Afghanistan. We are still in Iraq. Because we won.
Seems like I've heard that before. Maybe from when I was a wee one. Something about the vital importance of American boys fighting and killing and dying in southeast Asia.
Oh yeah not like the chief national security advisor wasn’t saying exactly that in 2017
Isn’t Iraq the bitch of other powers and still no where near the kind of infrastructure or quality of life that was under Saddam?
They are under US control essentially as a base and airstrip. They have armed forces but are a shadow of what they were
one of the best posts in a while
Look, Welper, I know American exceptionalism is a core tenet of the Church of Latter Day Saints but you're delusional if you think Iraq even remotely resembles a win. What did twenty years and billions upon billions of tax dollars get us in Iraq aside from lucrative contracts for Ratheon and thousands of dead sand people?
So a smaller group is being dominated and kinda sorta treated badly by the American government and you feel fine with that?
I actually agree with this.
That was a different situation. The explicit idea behind the Michigan State Group in 1955 was to give a little support now and not have to send a lot more support later on. If you want, I can go digging for the primary source documents this weekend. I have them laying around in digital form somewhere.
You'll note that while I never pinged him or quoted him, CTR saw his own ridiculous reasoning lampooned and felt it necessary to defend a comical strawman because in reality, his argument IS the strawman.
Trump killed Soleimani and their best response were ineffective missile launches at US bases. Israel bombed an Iranian embassy in Syria and killed Haniyeh in the middle of Tehran in a protected area, that led to True Promise 1/2 which were Iranian missile attacks on Israel that were largely ineffective. Israel then destroyed Iranian air defenses which Iran didn't respond to at all, only promising that True Promise 3 would happen "at a time and place of their choosing."
You could argue that the seeds were sown with our idiotic support of France holding authority over Vietnam.
Iraq was a military victory. Saddam is dead, his government toppled, ISIS later destroyed. We gained military bases in the region. I never said anything about political costs.
If it’s so weak and easy i guess Israel can take them out then, if it’s so easy why haven’t they done it already like with bombing saddams stuff
He might be right, at cause McCarthy actually called out commies and I'm sure wanted to have them executed, so in that way it is 'worse now'.
