(9 hours ago)gortex Wrote: I don't think there was a choice not to occupy Iraq following the downfall of Saddam , you can't just walk away from something like that handing them their Freedom fries saying "Ok now you fix it" , the mistake as I see it , other than the Iraq invasion , was Rumsfeld's hare-brained idea of using a relatively small force rather than properly occupy Iraq.
Trump is repeating the same mistakes of the past thinking you can just pop in and break stuff then walk away , now it seems he's not ruling out boots on the ground and the likelihood is there will have to be , it's likely you will have a achieved what Israel wanted but be left holding the baby.
America first seems a distant memory , Shah of Iran 2.0 ?
You could be right, but leaving it the way it was really wasn't the right answer either. Lets see what this does as it is technically not fixed but it's different.
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