A Few Thoughts on the War in Iraq

The War in Iraq is over. We have lost. So, why are we still over there?

Basically, George W. Bush is an idiot. In 2000, I supported Bush's stance of being against nation building and a "humble foreign policy." The fuckhead abandoned all of that after 9/11.

Essentially, the Iraq war was started to answer a question. Can the USA change the world for the better? Can we be the world's policeman? Well, we have our answer--NO. It can't be done. This is not to diminish our cultural and economic impact. In Vietnam, you can buy a Coke and a pair of Levi's. I tell people all the time that we won the Vietnam War much the same way the Japanese won World War II.

The reason 9/11 happened is because you had a handful of religious fuckheads who exploited a gap in our defenses. In short, they were lucky idiots. Even a broke clock is right twice a day.

The great fear of these nutjobs is the one thing they can't defeat--the encroachment of Western ideas and values. It bothers these Islamic fucknuts that many of their Muslim brothers would rather watch American Idol than engage in jihad. For the most part, Islam has become irrelevant. What Osama bin Laden wanted was a war, and George Bush took the bait. What a fool.

So, what now? The US needs to leave Iraq. Forget phased withdrawal. Just pack up and leave. This is where everyone seems at a loss. I think the country is united in the agreement that Iraq was a mistake. But two issues stick in their throats. The first is a reluctance to admit defeat. It stings the pride to lose. The second is concern that Iraq will descend into a cauldron of anarchy and become a breeding ground for terrorists.

I will answer the pride question first and say FUCK PRIDE. This macho right wing fascist horseshit is idiotic. The USA should not be proud of its ability to kick foreign ass. What we should be proud of is a live and let live approach to foreign policy. In other words, we don't start shit, but we will finish it. It's not our job to police these fuckers. Our job is to kill anyone who tries to kill us. As it stands, even Afghanistan has become a quagmire.

I am not so optimistic as to believe we will always have peace. Like it or not, there is always someone who wants to start shit. But once you beat a fucker up, do you offer to pay for his dental care and his hospital bill? That is exactly what we have done in both Iraq and Afghanistan. How ludicrous is this?

The job of our military is to kill people and break things. I learned that from Rush Limbaugh way way way back in the day when Bush the Elder was still prez. I have to wonder what happened to Rush since that time. By following this sage but forgotten advice, the USA would invade, kick ass in overwhelming fashion, then leave immediately. This was Desert Storm. The only drawback with Desert Storm was that we failed to leave Saudi Arabia. We hung around which was a motivating factor for our current involvement over there.

It is good advice to stay out of other people's business which leads me to my second point. What will become of Iraq when we leave? Well, that is simple. A fullblown civil war will erupt between the Sunnis and the Shiites. Iran will get involved (as they are already) and will experience what we have now--an intractable situation. I don't see this as being necessarily bad for the USA though it may affect some oil companies.

People will say this is madness, but these folks forget that the USA purposively supported a war in that region between Iraq and Iran that lasted for ten bloody years. We gave support to a man named Saddam Hussein. We purposively stirred up shit in that region. How can our departure be worse than that?

Interventionism doesn't work. It never has, and it never will. People will use the end of World War II or Kosovo as examples of successful foreign intervention, but those came at the end of long wars when all sides were exhausted from the bullshit. In addition, the USA was reluctant to get involved in both. The bottom line is that those folks we helped really helped themselves by abandoning war and moving on to rebuilding. We will probably help Iraq in the same way ten years from now when the fuckheads have killed each other leaving smarter and more peaceful people.

This leaves us with our allies in Iraq. If we withdraw, what will happen to them? They will die. This is a certainty. So, we take these refugees with us if that is what they choose. This is an expensive solution but far less expensive than the current situation. My xenophobic readers will howl in indignation at having these Iraqis come to America. These are probably the same fuckheads who think Bush was right for invading over there. But we fucked these people, so we have to do right by them.

We can clear up our involvement over there in short order. Will Bush do this? Fuck no. Like the piece of shit that he is, Bush will leave it to the next guy (or gal) to clean up. It sickens me that American men and women have to keep dying to feed this man's idiocy and self-delusion. What a goddamn slobbering fool. And they impeached Clinton for lying about a blowjob. . .

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