This is a Nightmare

Submitted by John W Mcgin (United States), May 12, 2011 at 09:30

First of all thank-you for an informative article. I had not realized how terribly devolved the situation in Iraq had become. I suggest that it reinforces a growing consensus that it was strategically foolhardy for the Bush administration to have made the toppling of the Husein regime in 2003 its highest priority. But what's done is done.

It is clear that our present Administration will do whatever "looks" good rather than address realistically and comprehensively how thwart the multi-faceted and growingt Islamist threat. The well-circumscribed taking ouf ot Osama bin Laden is characteristic of Obama's proclivity to pursue "show" over shubstance. Now, doubtlessly, various Cabinent officials will travel to Iraq and "certify" the appropriateness of the Amercian withdrawal. "Looking Good" and doing what is necessary to convince the Amercan electorate that he should be re-eslected as Commander-in-Chief in 2012 is all that drives the Obama Administration's foreign and Military agendum.

The real nightmare -- for Israel, the United States, and (I do not exaggerate) Western Civilization -- begins on January 20th when winning an election is no longe an issue. That is the real and present danger of an Obama victory in2012. And I do literally mean "nightmare." It is all too remeniscent of those years from 1932 up until The Shoah and World War II. All the signs were there and the people who could have thwarted such before it was to late did nothing. Think of that: Did nothing.

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