It’s really hard to believe, regardless of the outcome of the surge, that the United States is going to pull out of the Green Zone and just leave everything there for whoever shows up. Billions and billions of dollars have been spent building that enclave and the embassy. I’ll believe that the United States is withdrawing when it stops sending over new troops.
Iraq was supposed to be duck soup, with Iran to follow, and the oil would then flow until it ran out. I’ve read and listened to dozens and dozens of scenarios about Middle East policies, including WMD and 9-11, but all it was ever about is/was oil. They say we have to have a military presence there because if we leave, the Middle East will fall like dominoes. We don’t have a military presence in Vietnam because the United States was driven out, with the last people to leave clinging to the helicopters as they took off from the roof of the embassy. But, miraculously, no dominoes fell.
Exactly what it was that the United States gained from that war which cost over 50,000 dead American soldiers has yet to be determined.
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