Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Only CNN Could Construe the US Getting Out of Iraq as a "Loss"" video.

  1. What's more, neither Iran, nor any other oil-producing nation want shipping in the region interrupted. USA can help keep shipping open, but whoever threatens the shipping is pissing off the whole rest of the world. The Chinese? They need that oil. The Russians? They DO stand to benefit by disruptions in the region, if they can move oil and gas by pipelines, inland. And it would increase prices, which is also good for the Russians. But they would antagonize everybody else, including the Chinese. The reason there's so much resistance to pulling out of Iraq, now, is because it shows up the war mongers who got us in there and kept us in there, in the first place. Major loss of face to the supposed foreign-policy "experts" and intelligence agencies in the entrenched, permanent-state bureaucracy. The last two Republican presidents were interventionist, creating havoc and leaving tension behind, and the last two Democrat presidents were ditherers, who just maintained the status quo and the uneasy tensions left them by neocon Republicans. Bush left about 160,000 troops in Saudi Arabia for Clinton to sort out. Clinton left that same number in Saudi Arabia for Bush, Jr. to sort out. The Republican presidents waged ground war. The Democrat presidents waged air war, while leaving the ground situation pretty much static. The troops in Saudi Arabia were a constant, suppurating sore of corrosive culture clash. We drink alcohol. Our women aren't modest or subservient. In the West, women talk about toxic masculinity, here, but in Saudi Arabia, toxic masculinity is the LAW.
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