Did the George W. Bush administration help or hurt the Middle East?
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« on: March 30, 2017, 05:39:48 PM »
Plus side: Afghanistan and Iraq are now democracies with governments elected by the people.
Down side: More sectarian violence and underground/insurgent terrorist activities like ISIS.

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« Reply #1 on: March 30, 2017, 06:34:50 PM »
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« Reply #2 on: March 30, 2017, 07:00:59 PM »
Hurt, obviously, but always easy to say in hindsight.
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« Reply #3 on: March 30, 2017, 08:06:13 PM »
Quote from: DavidB. on March 30, 2017, 07:00:59 PM
Hurt, obviously, but always easy to say in hindsight.
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« Reply #4 on: March 30, 2017, 11:09:40 PM »
I don't really consider Afghanistan to be the Middle East.

Anyway, the decision to dissolve the Iraqi military and bureaucracy has to go down as one of the all time top blunders of US foreign policy. The trouble (well, one trouble anyway)) withya and the foreign policy idealogy he and his allies held was that it was very ambitious and outstripped the ability of the halfwits Bush tended to rely on and promote.
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« Reply #5 on: March 31, 2017, 04:32:24 AM »
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George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and Donald Rumsfeld basically created ISIS. And I don't mean any of these stupid conspiracy theories. I mean bad leadership decisions.
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« Reply #6 on: March 31, 2017, 04:53:45 AM »
$2 trillion for a war started for no good reason that created ISIS.
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« Reply #7 on: March 31, 2017, 05:33:21 AM »
I've opposed the Iraq war from day one and all subsequent events only confirmed my position.
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« Reply #8 on: March 31, 2017, 01:12:53 PM »
Quote from: Chairman (with limited role) of the 2020 Trump campaign on March 31, 2017, 04:32:24 AM
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George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and Donald Rumsfeld basically created ISIS. And I don't mean any of these stupid conspiracy theories. I mean bad leadership decisions.
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