09-07-2015, 07:39 AM
Thanks for that correction Joe.
I now fixed it in the original. I meant to write two trillion. But it may be even more than that.
The Iraq intervention may actually end up being as bad as Vietnam.
And really, I never thought anyone could create a fiasco like that again.
But W did. And he even matched the whole "decent interval" fig leaf as designed by Nixon and Kissinger.
If one recalls, when Nixon took over, he decided he was not going to be saddled with losing the war. Even though he knew the USA could not win.
So he wanted to protract it and allow for a decent interval between when he left and the country fell.
So the thing lasted seven more years after LBJ left.
Well, W did the same with the idiotic "surge". Which he was actually praised for, even by Obama. But really this made everything worse and Iraq is now ungovernable. And that proxy government W put in there collapsed right after he left. And now look what we have.
Talk about repercussions.
I now fixed it in the original. I meant to write two trillion. But it may be even more than that.
The Iraq intervention may actually end up being as bad as Vietnam.
And really, I never thought anyone could create a fiasco like that again.
But W did. And he even matched the whole "decent interval" fig leaf as designed by Nixon and Kissinger.
If one recalls, when Nixon took over, he decided he was not going to be saddled with losing the war. Even though he knew the USA could not win.
So he wanted to protract it and allow for a decent interval between when he left and the country fell.
So the thing lasted seven more years after LBJ left.
Well, W did the same with the idiotic "surge". Which he was actually praised for, even by Obama. But really this made everything worse and Iraq is now ungovernable. And that proxy government W put in there collapsed right after he left. And now look what we have.
Talk about repercussions.