The Third Iraq War is coming, and it will be ugly
BOB ADAMS, FUTURE BRIEF
BusinessInsider.com
Feb. 24,2015
As I work on a more comprehensive, global forecast for the next ten to fifteen years, I try to avoid spending time on matters of immediate media interest. The war in the Ukraine is an example. I will make an exception today as the topic is simply too important to ignore — war in Iraq.
When I wrote a guest editorial on the second Iraq War for Barron’s in June of 2004, Talking the Talk – Communication is the real failure in Iraq, my first paragraph pointed the finger at the person responsible for that war.
Who’s being blamed for failure in Iraq? The list is long. George Bush. Dick Cheney. Donald Rumsfeld. Colin Powell. Paul Bremer. An assortment of generals and diplomats. Europeans. Iraqis. Other Arab leaders. And let’s not forget Saddam Hussein, without whose lunatic regime none of this would have been possible.
Well, the Islamic State has replaced Saddam Hussein. Saddam used to love to pretend as if he was the innocent victim of American lies. Fortunately, in a perverse way, the IS has left no doubt as to its real nature. They have the YouTube videos to prove it and so do we.
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