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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell
That is not realistic. The problems there are not related to concentration on our part.
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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.