Quote from Dr. Zhivodka:
Saddam was the secular buffer between extremist in the region. Removing him by definition allowed Iran to get a foothold in Iraq I've been saying this for six years now.
Ultimately the American War in Iraq accomplished one thing and that was to hand Iraq to Iran on a silver platter thanks to the American serviceman and the American taxpayer. This is quite more than Iran could accomplish on its own through the 1980 war.
First of all, Iran was invaded by Iraq in 1980, not the other way around so trying to say the Iran-Iraq war was about Iran dominating Iraq, is very misleading and flat-out wrong, but hey, you are a lib, why let the facts get in the way.
Second, it was Obama who left Iraq on its own to deal with Iran. The whole point of this topic is that Iraq is falling back into chaos because the terrorist sense weakness in Obama and they know at this point they can take over Iraq simply by using their will.
It is the same in Pakistan where the Taliban knows it wont have to deal with the US so it will push forward to try to topple the government and take over.
Lets look at the trend. Iran becomes an Islamist state when Carter is President. They know Carter isn't tough and will offer no serious resistance.
From there, no more states fall to the fundamentalist till 1996. None, fell during Reagan or Bush. Then they lose Afganistan to the Islamic fundies called the Taliban. Once again, they saw how Clinton ran from Somali and they smelled weakness. The sharks smelled blood and they pounced on Afganistan. From Afganistan Obama finds safe haven and when given chance to take out Bin Laden, Bill Clinton chooses not to take the political risk and lets Bin Laden go.
The trend reversed and Bush took Afganistan from the Taliban.
Now, we have another Dem in office. A guy who doesn't have a whole lot of back bone. It looks like the trend is going to continue. It is possible to lose two or three countries during an Obama Presidency and thats in a first term.