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The US policy was RETARDED to begin with. IRAQ, just like Jordan, and many other Arab states are patchwork states pieced together by colonial powers with no fucking regard to linguistic, sectarian, and ethnic differences. US comes in, thinking that IRAQ is a fairly monolithic countries.....now it's getting it's ass handed to it.
Vietnam all over again, except this time the eyes are not slanted, camels instead of water buffaloes, and fake Shias instead of Maryknoll seminarians.
Same economic result by the way--the massive spending in Nam fucked the US economy in the 70s (coupled with the Oil Embargo, of course). I wonder how long the billions spent on Iraq and continued dollar depreciation will ass ream the US economy.
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