So now that it's been a few years...

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Does anyone here think that the U.S. going to war was a good idea? By that, I mean looking back, did the means justify the end (technically nothing has ended, but our "accomplishments" up until this point). Long after we had the balls to declare "mission accomplished", today comes a report from the Pentagon that the Army can't take any more and those pesky insurgents don't seem to be backing down in the least. Now I've got friends in active service who are being deployed towards the Iraq/Syria border. Hmmm...wonder where we're headed next. Maybe if we hadn't...oh, I dunno...gone in this thing virtually alone and against all common sense, we wouldn't be in this mess of shit. Or maybe if we'd had...what's that stuff called...decent intelligence. That's too many maybes though. Perhaps if we stopped saying that we support our troops and showed it by paying them like the heroes we say they are. But perhaps is just a fancy maybe.

I will say that we did get rid of Saddam...which sets the stage for the next dictator or oligarchy/theocracy/totalitarianist big bad regime that'll need to be "removed" in another decade. Sure, Saddam was a bad guy...no one with a soul can really argue otherwise, but I don't see that much of anything has changed since he's been gone. Yeah, there are Iraqi police but I suspect that is largely attributable to a paycheck rather than any source of civil responsibility. Not suprising, since they're trained by us and we basically treat them like "house niggers". Sure, there are "democratic" elections, but you're a fool if you think that those are more than a dog and pony show so we can clap our hands and think we done did good. Let's see this "democracy" handle their own shit and stop these motherfuckers from blowing shit up. Not likely. But hey...maybe I'm wrong. Maybe this time next year Iraq will be all rainbows and the streets will be so quiet that they'd give Norman Rockwell a cavity. If not, just remember that bigger bombs just spread more freedom.