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Originally Posted by piercehawkeye45
Defeat Al Qaeda and set up a secure government (that probably means dictatorship) then get out is my best hope.
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How do we defeat an enemy when we cannot even define it? There is no central Al Qaeda. Al Qaeda is insurgencies of all colors who often even hate each other.
One way to lose a war? Fail to identify the enemy. They are called insurgencies. Like in Lebanon, there are numerous warring parties. We did not call them all Al Qaeda in Lebanon. Why do that in Iraq?
Meanwhile, a theocratic dictatorship is already forming under Malakei. A dicatorship dominated by and for the benefit of a Shia majority at the expense of all other minorities. Civil War is inevitable with that dictatorship.
In some wars, the only solution is to let people keep killing themselves until all tire of war. In such conditions, best is to equip all sides so that none will obtain victory. Iraq's only viable solution may be how Lebanon finally came to peace. Welcome to what we created and what could only be avoided if Americans had taken the bigger perspective four years ago. Too late now.