Syrian casualties surge

Burning Bush Jul. 30, 2014 - 06:41AM JST Eventually, US and NATO will have no choice but to side with Assad.

Regarding Syria, U.S. and NATO learned from the history in Iraq. You can absolutely believe that going in to Iraq in the first place was a terrible mistake. As much as the world loathed Saddam Hussein, Saddam Hussein was the equalizing force in the Persian Gulf that kept Iran in check. When Bush ordered the invasion of Iraq in 2003, he did for the Iranians what they were never able to do for themselves. He got rid of Saddam Hussein. U.S. also disarmed the Iraqis, whereas before the invasion, Iran and Iraq had roughly equivalent military forces, these days Iran has larger, more powerful military forces than it did back nine years ago. Without U.S. forces in there, if Iran were to make a move against Iraq again, it would be devastating.