re: #21 funky chicken
GHWB should have listened to Schwartzkopf instead of Powell and the Saudis.
Imagine the billions we wouldn’t have spent patrolling no fly zones. Imagine no Khobar Towers bombing (our large Saudi footprint was for support of those no fly zones.) Imagine no oil for palaces program greasing Kofi Annan’s palms.
etc, etc, etc
shoulda, woulda, coulda…
Truman should’ve listened to Patton,too