re: Iraq Parliament votes to expel USA

Leave and take all equipment when we go.

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If the US leaves Iraq then they will become the next Syria... If this happens I could see the country splitting up.

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This is exactly what needs to happen.

90% of the problems in the ME are because they made these arbitrary states after WWII based on geography and not culture.

The Sunnis need one state and the Shias can have theirs. Try to fit them both into an arbitrary box leads to the majority brutally suppressing the minority.

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because they made these arbitrary states after WWII

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World War 1

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We could. And let the Sectarian slaughter begin? Iraqi Sunnis must know what will happen. There is no 'Iraq' per se; those days are over. Of course, the real Trump strategy is to take out the Islamist Regime in Iran...so...with that possibility being more possible now than in the last 40 years...let the strategist figure it out.

IMO, get out of the South and move to the Kurdish North.

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frick it. Let them all kill each other. They've been doing it for thousands of years anyways.

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Many Sunni and Kurdish legislators did not show up for the session, apparently because they oppose abolishing the deal.

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This is a very interesting theme. It appears that ethnic/religious minorities in the ME realize what will happen when Americans pull out and Arabic majorities against determine the rule of law.




And let me say I do not want to play worlds police force and I don’t want Americans dying in other countries’ civil wars/border wars.

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Cool. GTFO there. Now we have political cover for doing so.

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THIS !!!]

Now is the PERFECT time to GTFO of Iraq forever. Next time they start trouble bomb them with US missiles from Outer Space.

I'm all for getting the frick out 100%, but I doubt it will happen. We try to get too cutesy with our involvement, almost on the level of the CIA handling of Vietnam. It's for the oil in the region. Which is why I am skeptical that we will actually do it, and may even wage a war in order to maintain control over the oil in the region.

Just before Hurricane Katrina hit, average gas prices were under $2 dollars nationwide per gallon, and around $1.40 in SC. Katrina hit and damaged the oil refineries down in the Gulf region, and the oil companies stated that they would have to re-designate fuel supplies from other regions of the US, but that there'd be a shortage while those refineries were being repaired, and to expect a increase in gas prices.

Prices jumped well above $3 dollars in most places, and even above $4 dollars in many. The news were all about talking about the gas increases, the long lines at gas stations, and posting prices in local areas like they were posting weather events.

Then the news seemed to stop talking about the refineries, the oil companies, or the status of the refineries. Finally they were repaired. Then, around 2007, the oil companies started reporting record-breaking fiscal profits across the board, greater than they ever recorded before. The increased gas prices were supposed to pay for the extra costs of running refineries elsewhere (not damaged by Katrina) on overdrive, and for the cost of trucking and shipping fuel from other regions in the US down to the region normally covered by the damaged refineries. That's what the oil companies said. Where did the great profits come from?

And the gas prices stayed where they were. The companies figured that US citizens needed gas so much, that they would find a way to deal with the price increase, whether or not it was warranted. It was nationally-supported price gouging.

Now, 6 or 7 of the top 10 US corporations in annual revenue generation, every year, are oil companies. No, we won't get all out of the Middle East. I will be greatly surprised if we do....

Get out of that snake pit and take American aid out too.

Amen to that.