Bush = dumb

[lordalius]

Bush envisions U.S. presence in Iraq like S. Korea

As a military situation, Iraq is absolutely nothing like Korea. The limited U.S. military presence in South Korea is able to focus it's attention on essentially a single, clearly defined, not particularly large border. They're on the one side, and the "enemy" is on the other side, and South Korea

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[nanbolein]

I think the title of your post pretty much says it all.

[ldywati2d]

We actually talked about this Monday, with Brian's previous flight instructor.

They are already mired in a civil war, it would have been a civil war earlier without Houssein, which technically it was, until he rose to power (if I'm remembering correctly, that was our fault, like the Taliban). Under Saddam, the Suni/Shiite problems were essentially squashed, similar to the ethnic issues in the former Soviet Union. The problem is the artificial borders created in an historically tribal region. It makes it easy for dictators to rise and kill hundreds of thousands of people on their way to power (for the record, I certainly believe that Saddam Houssein killed more people than our troops have).

The military leaders are thinking that they need more troops to help control the violence. So many people are playing both sides there.

I think the only solution is for our troops to back off to the borders, keep anyone from moving in or out of the country and let them fight it out for themselves.