My conversation with a Iraq vet

[Der_Trihs]

@Ryan_Liam

I can sum it up in a few sentences.
To stop them doing another series of 9/11 style attacks, stop them from toppling Middle Eastern regimes and not to mention destablising the whole Islamic world, which would also threaten Western and Global security. On a smaller scale, we have to defeat them in order to ensure the Sunni population in Iraq doesn’t become Talibanised to the point rescue is impossible.

All of which can be accomplished if we gather enough allies to defeat them in Iraq.

You’re living in a fantasy world. Attacking Iraq helped Al Qaeda, not hurt it, and even if you magically killed every memebr in Iraq and put up a magic force field to keep any Al Qaeda member out, it wouldn’t help the Sunnis, make the Sunnis any less likely to be “Talibanized”, or much of anything to stabilize “the whole Islamic world” or even Iraq; they just aren’t that important. And the vast majority of people fighting in Iraq are Iraqis, not foreign terrorists.