Reply #11: You're right [View All]

[teryang]

The American commitment to the occupation of Iraq is necessarily a finite commitment. Iraqis and Iranians will always be there. We won't because of the massive drain on resources the conflict there is taking. However, this doesn't necessarily mean that the regime in power today would not expand the conflict anyway oblivious to the dangers of an expanded regional conflict in Asia. Nor does it mean that they would abandon their tactical use of nuclear weapons policy which is going to be very appealing to them in moments of desperation sure to come as a result of any wrongheaded military moves.

In fact they are motivated by some of the same social darwinism and Malthusian concerns that motivated Hitler to consistently make the wrong choices of belligerence.