29. If elected, what will you seek to achieve in Iraq and Afghanistan, and how? We won the war in Afghanistan, had the chance and the resources to finish off bin Laden, Al Qaida and the Taliban, and rebuild Afghanistan into a stable democracy. Instead, we pulled resources from Afghanistan to invade Iraq under a false pretense. Afghanistan has turned into a corruption-ridden narco-state producing 90% of the world's opium, and bin Laden, instead of being brought to justice, is resting in the hills of Pakistan, having become a hero to Islamic terrorists. Fundamental principle of geopolitics designates the enemy of our enemy as our friend. Our geopolitical enemy in the Middle East is Iran, the soon-to-be nuclear powered sponsor of radical Islam. The enemy of Iran was Iraq. Invading and destroying the enemy of our enemy and botching even that was sheer idiocy. The question is, "What do we do about it now?" Do we pull out of Afghanistan and Iraq, and hand the Middle East and its oil over to Iran, Taliban and radical Islam? To rally the country and to regain the trust of the world, we must admit to the world what the world already knows: the invasion of Iraq was a deplorable error by an incompetent administration that sold fabrications as intelligence; and ask the world to help us clean up the mess. The Middle East in the hands of radical Islam would be an error to rival the invasion and hurt all democracies around the world. Geopolitically, we have no choice but to stay and win. Iran & North Korea More |
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