tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post8637296292446029842..comments2024-03-28T00:11:33.489-04:00Comments on bensozia: Trump is Right about Bush and 9-11Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01037215533094998996noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post-24829436521878849902015-10-19T22:14:58.505-04:002015-10-19T22:14:58.505-04:00Don't forget the OTHER major war we fought und...Don't forget the OTHER major war we fought under Bush. Where was that one again? Some place they call the "Graveyard of Empires" or something? Ah well, no one remembers that war anyway, so I guess it doesn't matter.<br /><br />So yeah, we focus on Iraq to the point where we miss the actual danger elsewhere, then once we're caught with our pants down we retaliate against a terrorist network with a full scale invasion of an entire Central Asian nation. The land war drags on and accomplishes... nothing, really.<br /><br />For a time, Al-Qaeda loses their grip on Afghanistan, but the moment we pull our troops out they return and topple the weak puppet government we installed, and go right back to their old situation. We kill Bin Laden, and he gets replaced. Nothing is accomplished by this war that wasn't already achieved by insituting the practice of sealing airplane cabins.<br /><br />Then the same exact scenario plays out in Iraq. Bad intelligence leads us into a crusade to kill a notorious leader, impotently occupy the region for a couple years against a native insurgency, and ultimately withdraw leaving behind a puppet regime that we're shocked and amazed to learn is staggeringly corrupt and unwilling to fight without our help, and which rapidly falls to dedicated opposition.<br /><br />The only difference is that instead of the original regime quietly returning to power like in Afghanistan, in Iraq we created a power vacuum which led to things becoming worse than ever with the rise of ISIL.G. Verlorennoreply@blogger.com