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The cable TV news stations are doing back flips over the latest book ("Duty") by ex-Sect. of Defense Bill Gates, in which he charges that Obama dropped the ball regarding the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
I don't know if I agree entirely, but I do think Obama is too focused on getting out of these countries, with the takeover of Fallujah and Ramadi now by al Qaeda, adding firepower to Gates' remarks. For years, we heard an endless chorus of "It's about OIL!" Well, maybe it's more about oil than any of those people ever thought.
If Al Qaeda were to topple the Malaki govt (with the help of Sunni militants), then a much worse situation presents itself than the al Qaeda in Afghanistan and training camp issue. With Iraq, not only would al Qaeda have everything they were denied in Afghanistan (at the cost of thousands of US troops' lives), but they would also have in their pockets the world's largest unproven oil reserves, and fortunes$$$$ to go with it, making them far more capable to attack the US, Israel, and any non-Muslim country. It could also put them in position to acquire nuclear weapons.
Right now, the families of 80 US troops killed in Fallujah, who heroically won that city, must be sick to their stomachs.
I don't know if I agree entirely, but I do think Obama is too focused on getting out of these countries, with the takeover of Fallujah and Ramadi now by al Qaeda, adding firepower to Gates' remarks. For years, we heard an endless chorus of "It's about OIL!" Well, maybe it's more about oil than any of those people ever thought.
If Al Qaeda were to topple the Malaki govt (with the help of Sunni militants), then a much worse situation presents itself than the al Qaeda in Afghanistan and training camp issue. With Iraq, not only would al Qaeda have everything they were denied in Afghanistan (at the cost of thousands of US troops' lives), but they would also have in their pockets the world's largest unproven oil reserves, and fortunes$$$$ to go with it, making them far more capable to attack the US, Israel, and any non-Muslim country. It could also put them in position to acquire nuclear weapons.
Right now, the families of 80 US troops killed in Fallujah, who heroically won that city, must be sick to their stomachs.
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