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CAITLIN MACNEAL JUNE 15, 2014, 2:49 PM EDT
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Sunday warned that Islamic militants' insurgency in northern Iraq could lead to another massive terrorist attack.
"This is another 9/11 in the making. The FBI director has warned us in Congress that Syria and Iraq present a direct threat to our homeland," he said on CNN's "State of the Union."
The senator urged President Obama to take action in Iraq.
"Put American airpower into the game. These guys are not 10-feet tall. Stop the advance on Baghdad. Get people on the ground that the Iraqis trust (emphasis added). Maliki must go. Get a new government in place, right, and hit Syria," he said. "If you don't deal with Syria in a coordinated fashion, maybe with Turkey, regional Sunni Arab states, you will have this happen all over again in Iraq."
Graham suggested that the U.S. work with Iran to stabilize Iraq.
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nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)he will never understand why.
We gave guns to the Taliban when the Soviets where there and abandoned the field.
In this case, we caused this. The blowback will come due to a war that was not necessary. That is the uncomfortable reality, we cause these bogey men with foreign policy that is imperial and misguided.
But yes, he might be correct, but George Dubya Bush and the crew should be blamed for it, and they won't
Amonester
(11,541 posts)Oct. 21, 2012:
Top GOP Senator: The Time For Talking With Iran Is Over
http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/10/21/1054801/graham-iran-talking-over/
CRedibility = ZERO.
polly7
(20,582 posts)Do these people not realize how devastated Iraq and it's people were by the bloody invasion and occupation?
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)I know we should not have went to Iraq, but Saddam H was a bad guy....really bad guy. He killed 300,000 of his own people. That is quite a bit. However, the minute he was dead, we should have left......although not going at all would have been preferred.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)and I find it just as wrong headed
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)we played a fun game of proxy brush wars. Empires do that you know...
And it is not all bad we do and all good the rest do. It is far more nuanced and shades of gray
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,846 posts)Kingofalldems
(38,469 posts)jakeXT
(10,575 posts)spanone
(135,859 posts)Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)And, it worked ever so brilliantly...well, with the exception that it was a complete flop.
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)Only when Obama negotiates with them. Yep.
TexasTowelie
(112,368 posts)That's a great job of foreign relations there, Lindsey. It makes it more difficult for any foreign country to trust us.