It happened: “The measure asking all foreign troops to leave … passed.”
We are talking about Iraq … and the U.S. military.
So, not much else has happened.
After that parliamentary vote, Ron Paul explains, “when the Iraqi prime minister called up Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to request a timetable for a US withdrawal, Pompeo laughed in his face.”
I am with Dr. Paul on this one. The U.S. should take this opportunity to get out … “before more US troops die for nothing in Iraq.”
But is it for nothing?
Once upon a time, Americans were afraid of military “quagmires.” Now somehow we’ve come to accept permanent quagmire status in multiple theaters.
Could it be that when President George Herbert Walker Bush said, following the First Persian Gulf War, that “By God, we’ve kicked the Vietnam Syndrome once and for all,” he was speaking of its psy-op effect on the American electorate?
Pushing us into World War I, President Wilson claimed to be “making the world safe for democracy.” Perhaps Papa Bush made America safe for never-ending “regime-change wars.”
Before becoming vice president and then president, and going on to claim victory over “Vietnam Syndrome,” Bush headed the Central Intelligence Agency, the original regime modification professionals. And certainly endless, pointless foreign warfare has been the health of … the Deep State.
“The pressure for the U.S. to leave Iraq has been building within the country,” argues former Rep. Paul, “but the U.S. government and mainstream media is completely — and dangerously — ignoring this sentiment.”
Put American soldiers — not some secret or not-so-secret Deep State agenda — first. Bring them home.
This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob.
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