A look at Iraq's future

with Alissa Rubin, Michael Gordon and Fred Kagan
in Current Affairs
on Thursday, August 6, 2009 * * * * *

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A look at Iraq's future with Alissa Rubin and Michael Gordon, both of "The New York Times" and Fred Kagan from the American Enterprise Institute

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Iraq
Middle East
Obama
war
Bush
Afghanistan

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    1. tartufe  08/07/2009 01:54 PM Report

      The MI Oligarchy controls both wars . . . . Omitted 'controls'

    2. tartufe  08/07/2009 01:49 PM Report

      The MI Oligarchy both wars and thus 'sustainability' is the goal for as long as politically acceptable. Thus 'wall removal' doubtless encouraged behind the scenes, knowing full well the outcome. Thus, voila, we're OBLIGED to stay and 'stabilize' the situation.

      They blithely talk of five years plus in Af-Pak as a foregone conclusion. The media adopts this orthodoxy as an ipso facto logic; policy that only a logical thinking commander-in-chief or red blooded American could/should conclude. Profit margins locked in for another five years. And if needed Hillary is setting Somalia up as an up and coming upstart that may need our disciplining.

      MI stock the only sure investment. And coffins.

    3. REMant  08/07/2009 12:49 PM Report

      Anyone who thought for a second about it should have known that removing a repressive minority Sunni govt would result in a vindictive Shiite majority govt that might well cozy up to Iran, and that the oil would be a major issue. The Cheney admin seems to have thought that it could control all of that and make a bundle off of it, too, tho I cannot for the life of me see how. They must have thought of the Iraqis like they thought of the Russians. I think we will know in a hurry what the chances for peace are when they start removing the walls shortly. We should also have known all about insurgent tactics of persuasion and intimidation, because we faced them for nine years in Vietnam. We tried there removing and protecting who we thought were the innocents and rooting out and assassinating who we thought were the bad guys, and all that was accomplished by it was to make the country a wasteland and reduce husbands and fathers to picking up cigarette butts on American bases, or dealing in stolen PX merchandise, and turning their daughters and wives, and sometimes, sons, to prostitution.