re: Remember when "conservatives" cheered Bush invading Iraq?

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I remember. All the baws of 2003 were cheering as W invaded and were saying how wonderful the new "free" Iraq would be. Then it all collapsed. And all the baws claimed they were never for the war to begin with.

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Obviously there are real concerns about Gaza.

But the two situations are nothing alike.

Iraq is a large country sitting on oil fields and populated with multiple religious and ethnic sects that borders iran. Gaza is a 140 square mile enclave wedged between Egypt and Israel and is about the size of Jackson, MS, ruled by Sunnis and Hamas.

We invaded and began a war in Iraq. There is no war here. Israel has already done that and leveled the place.

The two entities and the circumstances are nothing alike.

I think the idea is a bold, novel idea worth exploring and I think that is just what Trump is doing. I’ve often in the past wondered about Gaza because it is small, strategic, on the Med, and really does have a wonderful coast. If all buy in, specifically the people on the ground, Arab countries, Israel…I think it could be something really transformative. It has resources. The terrorist, fundamentalist Hamas would have to be removed and replaced with smart, money making Arab resources. It would have to acquire more international nature. But the possibilities are real and certainly more beneficial than the status quo.

So we’ll see what happens. A lot of factors could prevent Gaza from ever getting better, including a dirty secret but real one: the Arabs don’t want the Gazans in their countries, even temporarily. Arabs view Gazans as trash. For this to work, the Arabs have to be sold that this is a financial long term good investment for them.