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Showing Original Post only (View all)Are you really ready for another war in Iraq? [View all]
If ISIS blows the dam they captured, the balloon goes up.
https://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/us-extremely-concerned-jihadi-takeover-iraqs-dangerous-dam/story?id=24900290
Are you really ready for this? Is the US military? How many more deployments do you think our troops can take? How much spending can our economy take?
I am not at all indifferent to the complexity of this situation, or to what is happening up on that mountain, and I am fully aware of the psychotic ruthlessness of ISIS.
...but "Saddam Hussein is the next Hitler" was followed by "WMD" was followed by "Bringing democracy," and each artifice was bullshit, and only served to drive us deeper into the sand. ISIS is bad, and so was Hussein, and there is always going to be a bad guy to go chasing after.
But we have been at war in Iraq for more than twenty years now, in one form or another. Matters have gotten worse, here and there, with each passing year.
Are you really ready to do it again?
Sincere question. I am deeply interested in your thoughts.