Once you got to Iraq and took it over, and took down Saddam Hussein’s government, then what are you going to put in its place? | |
That’s a very volatile part of the world, and if you take down the central government of Iraq you can easily end up seeing pieces of Iraq fly off. Part of it the Syrians would like to have to the west. Part of eastern Iraq, the Iranians would like to claim, fought over for eight years. In the north you’ve got the Kurds, and if the Kurds spin loose and join with the Kurds in Turkey, then you threaten the territorial integrity of Turkey. It’s a quagmire. | |
— Dick Cheney | |
From an interview with CNN on April 15th, 1994. | |
[This quote was found at a blog I follow: The Bully Pulpit | |
The original post is located at: https://jrbenjamin.com/2014/09/10/its-a-quagmire/ | |
It is an interesting site to visit if you have some time. Unfortunately, it is not posted to very frequently anymore. — kmab] | |
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January 17, 2019 by kmabarrett
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