Originally Posted by
West Coast
LW
Trying to understand your comment about when Iraq started.
About the Chinese laughing: in-re our choosing to dance with the tarbaby in Iraq, they are laughing at us, not with us. Keeps us at risk while they take care of their business.
From a geostrategic perspective, West, Iraq 2003 started in 1991 once the cease fire was signed, and agreed, and then the UN failed to back it up. That open sore of not closing the deal fed the political factors the culminated in 2002 efforts to sell the war and to undertake it in 2003.
Iraq hasn't ended. Even though most of the "fighting forces" were out by the end of 2010, we've had an ongoing support, training and liaison mission since then. Someone just opened the tap again ... and it's deja vu all over again.