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Originally Posted by Danzig
we went into afganistan and then pretty much ignored it while focusing much of our attentions on iraq. that was a mistake. we may well have a peacekeeping force in there by now, but i feel that we wouldn't be dealing with the steady erosion in that country since we first invaded.
at any rate, iraq was a mistake-a huge mistake. it peeled away military assets and attention. it's cost trillions, and it has contributed to the rise of iran and has destabilized that region even more than it already was. all it's done has cost us.
bush wasted any goodwill or feelings of empathy after 9/11 by pushing this war on iraq. i remember how most of the world reacted after the towers collapsed. our foreign affairs are a far cry from then-when we went from a country that had been attacked and had every right to defense, to a bully who thought it could do whatever the hell it wanted, wherever it wanted.
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I think the media may have forgotten it but it is a difficult place to win. Ask the Russians. Bush's biggest mistake in my view was his insistence that democracy would be able to overcome radicalsim. Radicals will always rule the roost in places like Afganastan because there is just not alot of good things happening there in the best of times.
We talk about racism in our country as though we have a monopoly on it. The discrimination in Iraq between different sects of the same religion is far worse than anything we encounter in our country. Democracy needs to have all people to agree to have an equal vote. That will never happen in Iraq. Why they thought it could is a mystery.