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Colbert: The GOP Is Taking Baby Steps Toward Admitting Reality

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Hecuba's daughter11/18/2020 3:10:15 pm PST

re: #184 KGxvi

The problem is, we absolutely would have been back by now if that was the approach. After WWI we walked away from Europe and ended up back there within a generation. Same, arguably, in Iraq - if we wouldn’t have had to go in when we did, we probably would have had to go in when Saddam died and Uday and Qusay fought for power in order to prevent a regional war.

I don’t know, maybe y’all are right and there was no other answer…

I don’t know if it would have ever been possible to get Iraq to work — but the team sent it to rebuild Iraq after the 2003 war consisted of a bunch of ignoramuses and ideologues who knew nothing about the country or its history. On the same order of sending Trump in to handle the situation in Iraq and expecting a blossoming democracy.