The sudden collapse of Iraqi forces in the face of lightly armed insurgents has catalyzed an emotional debate within the U.S. military about a war that, just a few years ago, seemed on the brink of going down in history as a success.
What this journalist (and everybody who is gleefully reposting this article) doesn’t understand is that the rise of ISIS will serve as ultimate proof for many Americans that the American invasion of Iraq was justified. Just the other day I heard a gentleman tell his buddy at the gym, “Remember all that talk about how we shouldn’t have gone in to Iraq because there was no Al-Qaeda there? And now everybody’s seeing we were right the entire time. Our only mistake was leaving too early but that was, you know, that President Oh-bama.”
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“…seemed on the brink of going down in history as a success.”
That’s just bizarre. I never thought the war in Iraq was a success or was going to be a success. It was always going to end like Vietnam. The oil reserves that people kept blabbering about have not come to fruition for either Iraqis, Americans or oil companies. When people talk about new oil fields and jobs and prosperity, they’re all talking about fracking in North Dakota.
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Yes, I know, this article was written from an alternative reality, it seems.
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