Iraq is a King SFB made disaster

I heard Lefty Libs last night on tv make the point that Iraq isn’t King SFB’s fault.  They argued the only way to have saved Iraq was a continued American presence in that country for decades.  I though to myself, oh, you mean like the American presence in Korea. You mean like our continued presence in Europe.  I waited for someone to make the point that America usually stands by its allies after a conflict, sometimes for up to 6 decades.  No one made that argument.  It must be horribly flawed in some way that is not obvious to me.

The only good reason for a continued American presence in Iraq is because it serves American interests.  So I ask:

Does it serve American interests to have a military counter weight to Iran in Iraq?

Does it serve American interests to provide stability for a country that supplies 3 million barrels of oil to the market every day?

Does it serve American interests to allow Iraq to devolve into chaos at the hands of al Qaeda?

Does it serve American interests to have another American ally routed by al Qaeda, or Russia, or Syria, or Iran?

Does it serve American interests to have Iraqi instability spill over into Turkey, Jordan, Israel, Iran etc.?

Does it serve American interests to have a Middle Eastern experiment in self rule fail so easily?

Does it serve American interests to have to watch the sacrifice of so much national blood and treasure over 9 years to go for nothing?

Now I happen to be a Neanderthal.  So I think the chaos in Iraq, while it was wholly preventable, is a gift from God.  There are masses of Islamo-Terror-Fascists congregated in close proximity to one another in Iraq making it easier to kill them in large numbers.  In my view, that is a good thing.  It’s easier.  It’s more economical.  It’s faster to kill them in great numbers while they are closely congregated than killing them one or two at time with drones.  You can kill rats one at a time when they show themselves or you can find the nest and wipe them out in one fell swoop.  There are multiple nests of rats in Iraq.  We should take the opportunity to kill them.

King SFB has warned the ITF that all options are on the table.  Except that all options are not on the table.  Immediately after saying “all options are on the table,” SFB took introducing American troops on the ground in Iraq off the table.

So what’s on the table?  Air strikes using US drones and aircraft are the most talked about options.  Unless technology has changed, the best most accurate way to deploy those assets is by controlling the air assets from the ground.  We’re talking about combat in a built up area.  Unless there’s someone on the ground to find and mark targets hitting the enemy becomes very difficult from the air in towns and cities. 

Given today’s civil and military leadership the first time a US bomb falls on the wrong house the effort to save Iraq with air power will be over.

On the good news side of this King SFB made disaster, on the Fox All Stars last night, I heard Judge Andrew Napolitano take the military “leadership” to task briefly for the debacle Iraq has become.