Isn't technology amazing?

[Karen]

And how much did we pay for this load of ..............

I t would be a really nice idea, there's only one problem........Iran and Syria, whose compliance would be required to get any piece of this to work, aren't exactly our friends, never have been, and never will be.

I haven't read the whole thing yet, so don't know how much of a part of it that is - the report is 100+ pages long.

But whether or not they are our friends, wouldn't it be in their own best interest to have a stable Iraq of some sort?

[Lady's Human]

No, Iran has been trying to rebuild the persian empire for 20+ years (this time around) and an unstable Iraq that they can then move in and control would greatly benefit their ambitions.


BTW, didn't anyone even EDIT that damned thing?

[lvpets2002]

Correct me if I am seeing this wrong = Butttt: if you have 10% with good intentions of ambitions in Iraq && 90% without amitions [for only to kill] == then where does that leave them.. The way I see it is the most Iraq's with ambitions are over here in the USA..

[RICHARD]

If I can make a very sexist statement and observation.


The governments in the Mid East only understand the "my thing is bigger"
way of dealing.

They bargain face to face but never with any promise of carrying out with the agreement.

When the fit hits the shan, they put their palms up and say, "I don't have any contol over my people!"

A strong reponse in Iraq was to have taken care of the Saddam-ster in '91
when we have the help and the attention of the Coalition.
And it shold have been expalined this way.

"Look, we don't like this shiat, and we will help if you need it....but as the big Kahuna we are gonna decide who stays and who goes", in that same vein that
they deal with us...A little hard-assedness, tempered with some slack, never lost a war.

If we look at the basic problem of Iraq it's OK to kill each other one bomb blast at a time.....but not OK to patrol, try to keep the peace and repair the infrastructure...


What are we doing wrong?