{"id":52832,"date":"2014-07-01T19:35:14","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T23:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=52832"},"modified":"2014-07-01T19:35:14","modified_gmt":"2014-07-01T23:35:14","slug":"petraeus-unsurprised-by-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=52832","title":{"rendered":"Petraeus unsurprised by Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"

For some reason the Washington press is making a big deal out of a speech that General David Petraeus made in regards to how he saw the conflict coming in Iraq. The Washington Times<\/a> writes;<\/p>\n

\u201cI think people who have watched this closely \u2014 and I\u2019ve been one of them \u2014 have seen this coming,\u201d he said. \u201cThere have been camps that were established just across the border of Iraq and Syria. You can see the designs. You could hear what they said. You could see this increasing terrorist violence.\u201d<\/p>\n

With the war he left behind several years ago resurfacing again, Gen. Petraeus has also resurfaced to shed light on how a country that was staunchly defended and supported by the U.S. military is slowly unraveling amid a new armed conflict.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I don’t think you had to watch events in Iraq unfold to anticipate the current situation. I’m pretty sure that most of the denizens of this blog saw it coming from the moment the last of US troops crossed over into Kuwait. The only way that anyone could not see it coming is if they ignored their lying eyes. They’d have to be intentionally ignoring it all. I’m sure it wouldn’t be unreasonable if someone claimed they saw it coming from January 2009.<\/p>\n

This administration spends a lot of time just wishing the world was the way they want it to be, rather than putting much effort into working to make the world they think it should be. The nomination of John Kerry as the Secretary of State proved that. We dodged a HUGE bullet in 2004.<\/p>\n

Now, I admire Petreaus for what he did in Iraq, I’m less impressed with what he’s done since. But he’s not some kind of oracle. I’d say he has a keen eye for the obvious in regards to Iraq. <\/p>\n

Four years from now I wonder if the Washington press will be stunned that I saw the same fate coming for Afghanistan back in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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