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In reply to the discussion: McCain has totally lost his mind... [View all]McCain was saying that it was stupid to pull the troops out of Iraq because we 'won.' We did win in the sense that we temporarily created an Iraqi Government made up of both Sunni and Shiites, but al Maliki has since expelled most of the Sunni from the Baghdad government. Shiite members of the Iraqi military have deserted, to join their Isis brothers. The al Maliki Government has since become allies with Iran. What McCain does not say is that if we go to the aid of the al Maliki Government, we are in essence allying ourselves with Iran.
And given McCain's constant push to pressure the Obama Administration to aid the Syrian rebels (all Sunni, and the creators of ISIS, allied with Saudi Arabia), we would be aiding the Sunni in Syria, and the Shiites and Iranians in Iraq. We would be at cross purposes.
Maybe we should let Isis take over Northern Syria and Northern Iraq, and let the Shiites control the resulting Syrian and Iraqi rump states.