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Originally Posted by aceventura3
Like I have written before. When you look at a map of the Middle East you clearly see Iran sandwiched between Iraq and Afganistan. Iran is militarily stronger than Iraq. We need control of Iraq if we are to take military action agaisnt Iran. Also having control of Afganistan helps. With military presence in strategic points we can put the squeeze on Iran.
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The result of our invasion of Iraq was to put the two most extemeist parties with ties to Iran (SCIRI and Dawa) in control of the Iraq government only increasing Iran's influence.
And we have control of Afghanistan? Perhaps we would have if we did not abandon it prematurely, for the most part, in order to pursue the folly in Iraq.