re: #833 SanFranciscoZionist

Well, he DID set his underpants on fire.

But I doubt that the people and ideology of AQ are really gone. He was making light of their ability to wage attacks anymore. Pretty foolish in my mind. Another part I disagreed with was when he credited our involvement in Iraq for “unleashing Iran” on the world. I don’t see how having the US Military stationed next door in Iraq was viewed as a green light for mischief by the Mullahs and even if it was, how exactly did Iran express the new unleashed status? They haven’t changed a bit. Still waging low level warfare by funding miscreants throughout the ME, just like they always did. Still playing the part of Pear-Shaped Ali at the UN. I guess Cole is saying is that the Iraqi people would be better off and the region would be more stable with the Hussein-Mullah stand-off and occasional war. Nice. Its the old “Saddam was a good Zookeeper and if we keep Iran and Iraq at war, they’ll leave the rest of us alone” reasoning.

To me its kind of like cleaning out a cluttered basement. Halfway into the job it looks worse than when you started.