Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Iraq....Again.....Still

Iraq...Again...Still...

So another city in Iraq, Ramadi, has fallen to ISIS or is it the Huthis--no that is Yemen and the Saudi's are taking care of them--or not. 

I remember being so hopeful that once GWB was out of office and Obama was President, we could declare victory and get out. Well, it took a lot longer than I expected but we did kinda, sorta get out....for a while. But the Middle East has a lot in common with flypaper--once you touch it, it is the very devil to get it off.  

We have troops in Iraq to train the Iraqi army. This doesn't seem to doing a whole lot of good.  From what I read the Iraqi Army outnumbers the ISIS troops 3:1 but turn and run when confronted. 

Now this post could just as easily be titled Afghanistan...Again...Still. 

Or Yemen or Libya....

Frankly, if we had a draft so that everyone's darling son or daughter stood an equal chance of killed or maimed, there would be marches on Washington to protest.  And if we had to raise enough taxes to pay for all these interventions, there would be a lot of irate taxpayers. 

Just think of what we could have done with the money we have poured and continue to pour into the bottomless pit of the Middle East. And just think of the lives that have been lost or ruined by this mess. And just think of how we keep on doing it. 

1 comment:

Rambling Woods said...

Ohhhhhh. We talk of this often in our house.....