October 08, 2007
Geopolitics and the stupid, irrational candidates
I have to tell you, when it comes to policy in the middle east, the Democratic candidates are about as dumb as the Republican candidates.
None of the top three can say they'll have the troops out by January, 2013, a little more than five years from now. Does that mean we should support Gravel? It just might because crazy old man bullshit aside, he's the only one who seems to get it. Kucinich is just pretending and those of you who think differently are a bunch of tools. Kucinich is an even bigger egomaniac than Bush.
The political reality in the region is that the Saudis don't want the Iranians in control of Iraq. Neither do the Syrians. Neither do the Turks. The Syrians don't want the Turks in control of Iraq. Neither do the Saudis and Iranians. Get the picture? It's a complex balance of multiple forces and we could pull out tomorrow and no faction would be able to move in. Should the Iranians start pumping up the Shia, the other powers will aid the Sunnis. There is no risk, despite what our idiot President says, of an Iranian or 'al Qaida' takeover of Iraq.
The Democrats need to get that through their obstinate heads and realize they CAN pull troops out of Iraq, certainly before 2013. There is a civil war going on in Iraq. One power or another will eventually be victorious. None of the players in the region will allow anything other than a fully independent Iraqi state to be created, probably around a strongman. Let's hope he's more like Putin and less like Hussein.
Posted by mcblogger at October 8, 2007 11:49 AM
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