Iraq is as relevant as Anzio was in January 1945. It just is not important anymore.

Ricks desperately wants a defeat (like Obama) to “teach America a lesson” about listening to the innate goodness and moral superiority of both Saddam Hussein and men like him, and Ricks (and people like him).

Ricks is as irrelevant as Saddam and Anzio, because the crux of the matter is nuclear breakout. Which is a reality, and will inevitably lead under weak, anti-American, and moralizing President Barack Hussein Obama, to nuked American cities.

THEN, the only question will be how many Muslims does America kill, and how quickly, to restore deterrence? My ball park figure is about half a billion.

Well, Obama and Ricks knew best. They figured apologies, defeat, and moralizing would magically create power where every time in the past it had brought horrific defeat.

In many ways, people like Obama and Ricks project the hothouse social dynamics and politics of the Western Elite onto the broader world. It’s a failure of imagination above all else.