Vietnam 2: Electric Boogaloo

[Mr. Analog]

So here's a chilling headline right from the 60s:

U.S. to send hundreds of military advisers to Iraq

I'm sure this will just be a "police action" as well. Send just enough people and equipment to get involved while also being ineffective. And of course this announcement comes just a couple days after a proposed tax increase on gas. What a coincidence!

1 ticket off this planet please.

[Thorin]

The Sunnis and the Shiites have hated and killed each other since the 600s.  Now that there isn't a large contingent of foreign troops protecting the Shiites, the Sunnis are trying to regain control.  Given that all of their arguments lie in highly-polarizing religious disputes and they're willing to kill over these disputes, it will take a lot of work to get the two sides to talk.  Throw in that the Shiites were in control for ten years and spent that entire time pushing the Sunnis to the side instead of making an inclusive government and country, well, there's gonna be a lot more war in Iraq.

That article does a good job juxtaposing what actions Obama took in 2011 and what words he said with what is happening now.  It's also interesting that Dick Cheney wrote this in an op-ed article: "Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many".  Given that Cheney helped convince Bush to invade Iraq based on suspected WMDs, and that said invasion has now cost around 1.7 trillion dollars and thousands of American lives and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi lives, I guess he's saying that Obama is now in that rare group that George W. Bush previously joined?

Man, I wonder how the US is ever going to come back from that edge of extreme partisanship they're now on.  Maybe in another hundred years they'll be fighting like the Sunnis and the Shiites.

[Mr. Analog]

The reality is they're running an Empire just as Britain was, it's going to take somebody like Ghandi to snap them out of this constant euphoria.

[Darren Dirt]

The reality is they're running an Empire just as Britain was, it's going to take somebody like Ghandi to snap them out of this constant euphoria.

Who was Heisenberg's "Ghandi"?

[Thorin]

That article does a good job juxtaposing what actions Obama took in 2011 and what words he said with what is happening now.  It's also interesting that Dick Cheney wrote this in an op-ed article: "Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many".  Given that Cheney helped convince Bush to invade Iraq based on suspected WMDs, and that said invasion has now cost around 1.7 trillion dollars and thousands of American lives and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi lives, I guess he's saying that Obama is now in that rare group that George W. Bush previously joined?

So even Fox News caught the hypocrisy in Cheney's statements: http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/06/19/dick-cheney-sits-stunned-as-fox-news-turns-on-him-history-has-proven-that-you-got-it-wrong/