Yup, the Colonel is a real charmer. Now we know where you got your world-view from. Based on what you told us, I was under the impression it came from your father. I guess that was a mistake.

From Wikipedia:

Regarding Iraq, he wrote, "might it not have been wiser - as several of us suggested in 2003 - to shake off Europe's vicious legacies and give Kurds their state, Iraqi Shias their state, and the country's Sunni Arabs a rump Iraq to do with as they wished?" Regarding all these countries, he wrote, "We needn't launch an endless war to fix the mess Europeans in pinstriped trousers left us - but we'd damned well better accept that, when we expend blood and treasure to prop up phony states, we're standing on the tracks in front of the speeding train of history."

Now that's interesting. He and Joe Biden were actually on the same page at that time! Who would have imagined that? Actually, I happen to agree with both of them. I wonder, however, how come you so enthusiastically supported getting over 4250 US military personnel killed to keep the whole mess together.


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