I was listening to the Bill Cunningham radio show back on September 28th, and he gave a very impassioned and compelling off-the-cuff argument against intervention in the Middle East. I was able to the get the transcript: Right now, what we have bombed since 1991, I have a partial list: Kuwait, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, et al. And no other country on the face of the earth has done this. Obama made the argument tonight that we’re unique. When there’s a problem, we get called. Assuming we had not been involved in Kuwait, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, could things be worse? If we had not done the 1991 invasion with George Herbert Walker Bush, a great success, all that did was beget the next war beginning in March of 2003, and I was a vehement supporter of that for which I have apologized. We cannot win. We can’t choose between the Shias and the Sunnis and the Kurds, from between Hamas and Hezbollah, no matter what we do it’s wrong. We can’t correct it. We can’t correct it from 35,000 feet. And when we had 150,000 soldiers there and the greatest air force in the world, we couldn’t bring pox Americana to Iraq at all. In fact, assuming this thing happens, which is happening now to the tune of almost 100 million dollars a day. We can bomb them for the next 40 years, it won’t make any difference. We are going to spend ourselves into bankruptcy, for what?
Posted on: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 16:55:26 +0000
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