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Originally Posted by Neal Stevens
We booted out the dictator, they are turning it into a killing field. Blame us for their lack of sense?
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The Sunni and Shi'a have been killing each other since the *start* of the religion. Saddam was just keeping the Shi'a population beat down so they didn't organize a revolt. Qatar and the United Arab Emirates have the same problem: a Sunni minority ruling a Shi'a majority.
My point is that it was already a killing field. CNN just wasn't reporting on it, because Saddam would've denied them entry to the country and MSNBC would've had absolutely no moral compunction about picking up the "slack" in Iraq coverage. Iran is a killing field, as well as Pakistan. Not to even mention Indonesia and Kashmir. The only thing that is different is that media organizations feel it is now "good business" to report all the things which had previously been deemed "good business" to repress.
What I don't understand is why we didn't pull our 38,000 troops out of South Korea, and task them with defending the borders. Japan, Spain, Italy, and Germany don't want our military there either, so pull those ~25,000 troops out and rotate them through Iraq as well. Having 50,000 devil-dogs out running random patrols,
hunting the jihadists crossing the borders from Syria and Iran, would have made all the difference in the world.