Wes Mantooth

And since we are largely responsible for Iraq becoming a bigger shithole what responsibility do we have towards making it a better shithole?

I can see both sides of it. Should we just wash our hands of it, back off and let the Iraqis work towards getting there own nation back on track (they probably couldn't do any worse) or do we bare some responsibility in fixing what we messed up in the first place? What "fixing it" means is entirely up for debate of course.

I'm not sure Iraq is something we can just shrug our shoulders over, leave and pretend the last couple of decades never happened. Our finger prints are all over what Iraq has become today.

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