We have been fighting in Iraq in one way or another for 23 years.

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1. History, imo, suggests TPTB will expend unlimited American resources, both in lives, limbs, and

other body parts, and in treasure, over extended periods of time to exert hegemony in an oil-rich area with almost all of this cost in lives and financial resources inuring almost exclusively for the benefit of big oil. Of course, I just might have a jaded view.