Generational Dynamics World View

[David Horn]

(10-07-2019, 01:35 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: ** 07-Oct-2019 World View: Darfur, Syria and Iraq

(10-07-2019, 12:56 PM)David Horn Wrote: The Scumbag In Chief strikes again!  If the so-called security wing of the GOP continues to back him after this, then he truly has made them into sock puppets, and they need to be removed from the scene in full.  I'm no Republican, but I did at least respect their ideas, while disagreeing more often than not.  That was then  ...  

So I assume you're one of the ones who whined that Bush should withdraw troops from fighting the jihadists in Iraq.  But now?  You're whining that Trump should NOT withdraw the troops who have been fighting the jihadists in Syria, which is right next door to Iraq.

I guess the war in Syria has become stylish and fashionable.  Developing Generational Dynamics has always been so fulfilling.

My point from day one hasn't changed.  We had absolutely no business walking away in Tora Bora, when al Qaeda was there for the taking.  If we had done that, told the Taliban not to try anything similar in the future and left, none of the post-911 nonsense in the Middle East would have occurred. Iraq?  That was a clusterf*ck from the minute the idea crept into Dick Cheney's head.  We've paid for it 50-fold ever since.  

But once you make the decision to go all-in, the onus shifts to you , and that's where the US finds itself after the Neocon Follies.  We buried ourselves in the region, and, among other things, made and received commitments with the Kurds which they kept in full.  Walking away, leaving them to the tender mercies of Erdogan, would be criminal in and of itself, but classically self defeating if another conflict occurs -- as it probably will at some point.


I assume you see this, but you were having fun be sarcastic.