Wasting Time With Alex

Surrender is a terrible option…

While I believe Victor Davis Hanson makes a great point about how disastrous the consequences of a withdrawal from Iraq would be on our military , I believe that leaves out the even more imminent and important disaster that would follow as the various factions freed from the chance of any true American intervention to stop them would race to fill the created vacuum. Especially Iran with its ambitions to be the power driver in the ME. We can kiss anything short of a full military conflict with Iran goodbye to stop their nuclear program. While our military superiority would allow us to destroy whatever we went after and any Iranian military forces that came up against our own would likely be crushed, the fact remains that an emboldened Iran aware that the US has no stomach for prolonged terror conflicts, would immediately unleash a torrent of terror attacks through proxies or pre-positioned agents, not just in the ME and against our troops, but against civilian allies and American civilians around the globe and very likely civilian targets in the US as well. They have made this very clear to us, and the likely people in the WH - spineless anti-war democrats - after a US failure in Iraq, worried about their poll numbers, would likely thus do nothing as Iran goes nuclear. A consequence of this move will be that Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Turkey, and all the smaller states, including the broken Iraqi state itself, would all face a huge threat and be forced to go nuclear as well. All while Iran actively used proxies and its own forces under a nuclear umbrella and with a weak WH that would likely do nothing to expand their influence. In a best case scenario Israel simply doesn’t nuke Iran and starts a new world war where nuclear weapons end up destroying the ME. But the end result unfortunately as Iran resorts to holding the oil flow hostage and in turn ends up destroying the world’s economies, and eventually dragging in oil hungry China as the Chinese try to use force to secure their oil supplies, will be the same war.

Anyone deluded into thinking that somehow Iran can be deterred and that the terror agents in the ME emboldened by another US capitulation would not drastically escalate their efforts to destabilize the region and grab power and eventually bring about another much larger and horrible conflict with terrible world wide consequences, deserves to be mocked. Unfortunately I believe that these lunatics that are demanding we surrender, be it for political gain or simply out of BDS, all probably think such a conflict is fine because it would stick it to the evil US. We can not have these people setting policy & leading our nation. So yeah, the consequences to our psyche, military, and our nation go far beyond simply setting our ability to effectively deal with this crazy world back 2 decades.