Pitt thinks Jeb will invade Iraq....

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WilliamPitt (57,786 posts)

Jeb Bush wants to invade Iraq. Again.


If Jeb Bush does run to be 45, he says he is prepared to be the third Bush to employ American military power in Iraq.

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He said the United States should “reengage with some small force level who can help continue to train the Iraqi army, to be able to provide some stability.”

He also said he envisions carving out a combat staging area in Syria to support international military operations against the Islamic State, with the support of US air power.

-- Boston Globe, 3/26/2015

http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2015/03/25/for-some-presidential-hopefuls-iraq-issue-fraught-with-peril/Cj2LmTUxs6j5rxOXL65R8O/story.html

"There is no present or future - only the past, happening over and over again - now." -- Eugene O'Neill

Give it up you drunk!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026416793

[franksolich]

+1 for Jeb Bush.

If drunken Bill Pitt doesn't think it's a good idea, it's pretty much a good idea.

One can bank on it.

[BlueStateSaint]

+1 for Jeb Bush.

If drunken Bill Pitt doesn't think it's a good idea, it's pretty much a good idea.

One can bank on it.

I see what you did there!  H5!

[DumbAss Tanker]

There are a lot of problems with deploying major ground forces in the middle east, including our ideology not matching reality on the ground, but the biggest one is that while it would take a generational presence to actually make a difference at a strategic level, if a GOP President did deploy troops the MSM would spend all its time and energy attacking every aspect of the effort until a Democrat who would pull out at any price was elected. 

We can kill a lot of bad guys and make some difference in the picture at a tactical/operational, short-term level, but given our political system and the complete co-opting of the MSM in it, US strategic military-political efforts are doomed to ultimately fail there because of our own ideological blind spots and cyclic internal political changes which make it impossible to do anything hard that can't be completely wound up in eight years tops.

[I_B_Perky]

There are a lot of problems with deploying major ground forces in the middle east, including our ideology not matching reality on the ground, but the biggest one is that while it would take a generational presence to actually make a difference at a strategic level, if a GOP President did deploy troops the MSM would spend all its time and energy attacking every aspect of the effort until a Democrat who would pull out at any price was elected. 

We can kill a lot of bad guys and make some difference in the picture at a tactical/operational, short-term level, but given our political system and the complete co-opting of the MSM in it, US strategic military-political efforts are doomed to ultimately fail there because of our own ideological blind spots and cyclic internal political changes which make it impossible to do anything hard that can't be completely wound up in eight years tops.

What you said, DAT.  The US has lost the national will to make total war when necessary against its enemies. I blame the liberals. 

The only bright side, if you will, is that NYC or some other liberal haven will be the first to get nailed if Iran gives the muzzie nuts a nuke to set off.  Personally I think it is a matter of when and not if.  The ISIS muzzies are nuts, the Iranian muzzies are deviously smart nuts.

Personally I'd like to see both sides of the muzzie nuts kill each other off in massive quantities. As long as they are killing each other, they ain't killing us.   

[DumbAss Tanker]

Pretty much how I see it too, Perky.

[obumazombie]

+1 for Jeb Bush.

If drunken Bill Pitt doesn't think it's a good idea, it's pretty much a good idea.

One can bank on it.

He could use a bit more advice from George Costanza.

[BlueStateSaint]

Pretty much how I see it too, Perky.

I've got to say that I agree with Perky as well.  Hence, why the NYCPD has a very good antiterrorism division, despite what DeBlasio's tried to do to it.