Hi readers. Nowhere in the modern world. Maybe nowhere in the history of the planet has a nation squandered such treasure and so many lives for absolutely nothing.
Nothing.
Iraq. I-freaking-rock. Invaded the damned place twice. Presidents of both parties sent men and women to waste away there, then left Iraq in chaos and ruin for the first set of armed fanatics to arrive. From all directions.
Hell, the French caused the Vietnam War and a lot of what’s happening in the Arab lands today in their incompetent dealings with their vanished empire, but they’d have to tip their hats to us on this. They only lost Algeria and Vietnam etc, and their own country to the Germans. And they did most of it with money from US taxpayers by pretending to have been an ally during WWII so’s we owed them money to rebuild.
But even with US money the French couldn’t get up there in the neighborhood of a billion dollars a day.
It took two Bushes, a Clinton, and this guy now to pull that off.
So now nobody knows where any of the borders are to Iraq, and the only people who probably won’t end up with a piece of it are the Israelis. Not for lack of wishing, threatening with nuclear weapons, and thumb sucking. Be assured.
US foreign policy use to make a certain amount of sense unless you viewed it from a distance. But I think we’ve finally reached the point where it ceased making any sense and nobody in his right mind would attempt to make sense of it.
That way lies madness.
Olde Jules
So Far From Heaven 