28 July 2011
Obama’s Iraq Abdication
Yes, President Obama has decided to give up his predecessor’s fool’s game in Iraq. It cost us plenty in blood and treasure, contributing measurably to the near-bankruptcy that menaces our country’s credit rating even now. More significantly, it played into the hand of our nemesis, the Islamic regime in Iran, whose ambitions of regional dominance were being held in check by the perfidious Saddam regime. Sometimes, you have to trade tolerance of one repressive state for control of another.
Marisa Cochrane Sullivan of the Institute for the Study of War, ignores this colossal mistake in her OpEd in the July 28, 2011 Wall Street Journal. It is not surprising that someone who has dedicated her career to analyzing armed conflict would advocate our remaining in Iraq as a solution to difficulties that Iran continues to create for American interests in Iraq and elsewhere. If control of Iran was the real reason for our invasion of Iraq in the first place, the U.S. should have invaded the Islamic Republic and overthrown its theocracy instead. The Study of War should teach us that proxy wars are often ineffective, wasteful, and beneficial mainly to arms suppliers.
Yes, President Obama has decided to give up his predecessor’s fool’s game in Iraq. It cost us plenty in blood and treasure, contributing measurably to the near-bankruptcy that menaces our country’s credit rating even now. More significantly, it played into the hand of our nemesis, the Islamic regime in Iran, whose ambitions of regional dominance were being held in check by the perfidious Saddam regime. Sometimes, you have to trade tolerance of one repressive state for control of another.
Marisa Cochrane Sullivan of the Institute for the Study of War, ignores this colossal mistake in her OpEd in the July 28, 2011 Wall Street Journal. It is not surprising that someone who has dedicated her career to analyzing armed conflict would advocate our remaining in Iraq as a solution to difficulties that Iran continues to create for American interests in Iraq and elsewhere. If control of Iran was the real reason for our invasion of Iraq in the first place, the U.S. should have invaded the Islamic Republic and overthrown its theocracy instead. The Study of War should teach us that proxy wars are often ineffective, wasteful, and beneficial mainly to arms suppliers.
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