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In reply to the discussion: OK, we started bombing a new country. Straight up or down: do you support it? [View all]Douglas Carpenter
(20,226 posts)OBVIOUSLY - we should never have invaded Iraq in the first place. OBVIOUSLY - we should have never attempted to destabilize Syria in the first place. OBVIOUSLY - we should have been following a wiser and more prudent policy in regards to Israel and Palestine in the first place. OBVIOUSLY - we should have avoided an endlessly antagonistic relationship with Iran even when they were attempting a more moderate course and we should have pursued a whole different approach to Iran in the first place.
OBVIOUSLY THESE AND OTHER ISSUES AND A GROSSELY MISGUIDED POLICY CREATED THE POWER VACUME AND INCUBATED SENTEMENT THAT MADE ISIS POSSIBLE IN THE FIRST PLACE.
But, now that we are there and an utterly misguided policy set the stage for ISIS - what do we do? - let them take over Iraqi Kurdistan? Let them establish a menacing regime across Iraq and Syria? I don't know how this going to work out. But I don't know what else we can do now that we have already fucked everything up.