Iraq falling apart?

[Phillip V]

We need to re-invade with four times as many troops. It will help solve the unemployment problem as well as make the world safe for democracy.

At least on the contractor side of the house.

Which is where I plan to be in a year. Recently got my Top Secret clearance.

[HVC]

We did what we could. The rest is (mostly) on them.

Yeah that is how I would hope people see it, or they just recognize Iraq was never going to work as a country.

whithout a strong man. if only there was a strong man that could keep them together...


:p

[Sheilbh]

We did what we could. The rest is (mostly) on them.

Yeah that is how I would hope people see it, or they just recognize Iraq was never going to work as a country.

We failed.  I agree that you did what you could from around 2006, but for the first 3 years of the occupation we failed and I think that was the period when there was most chance of success or worst consequences for failure.

[11B4V]

I get the feeling that I'm about to see a train wreck. I dont know why.

[Phillip V]

We did what we could. The rest is (mostly) on them.

Yeah that is how I would hope people see it, or they just recognize Iraq was never going to work as a country.

We failed.  I agree that you did what you could from around 2006, but for the first 3 years of the occupation we failed and I think that was the period when there was most chance of success or worst consequences for failure.

Is it 10 years in Afghanistan, yet? 

[Eddie Teach]

What a clusterfuck. If Iraq goes (further) into the shitter, it will not be good for Obama.

You may be right, or it may make people even more glad we got out of that mess.

[Sheilbh]

Is it 10 years in Afghanistan, yet? 

We may have failed there too, but less and more understandably.  Iraq was a distraction.  Again I think we had a very real opportunity for about 4-5 years in Afghanistan which we didn't take because we moved onto Iraq.

Having said that the Taliban and Pakistan connection made Afghanistan far harder to predict.

[Habbaku]

Here's hoping an independent Kurdistan makes it out of the ruins.

[Valmy]

Here's hoping an independent Kurdistan makes it out of the ruins.

Why would you hope for such a disastrous developement?

[11B4V]

Here's hoping an independent Kurdistan makes it out of the ruins.

Why would you hope for such a disastrous developement?

Wouldnt the turks shit a cow if that happened?

[Habbaku]

Yep.  And it'd be awesome.

[Sheilbh]

Wouldnt the turks shit a cow if that happened?

And the Iranians and the Syrians (assuming they both still have functioning governments).

[Ed Anger]

Fuck 'em.

[Razgovory]

I get the feeling that I'm about to see a train wreck. I dont know why.

Have you been putting stuff on the track again?

[Kleves]

You may be right, or it may make people even more glad we got out of that mess.

Maybe. I think it's just as likely that Obama will be blamed for things going pear shaped. Juxtaposing those quotes from Obama in the article ([Obama]hailed [al-Maliki] as the leader of "Iraq's most inclusive government yet.") with some of the stuff that's going on ("within a month, al-Maliki would arrest multiple major opposition figures, and Iraqi democracy was on the verge of complete collapse") could be very effective.