Realty check is dawning on prospective Presidential nominees of both the ruling Republicans and the opposition Democrats, no matter what the rhetoric is played out in the US Senate.
Senator Hillary Clinton by acknowledging that no matter who wins the crucial 2008 elections, no revolutionary changes will come about in US foreign policy. Inevitably a confrontation with Iran is on the table, no matter who sits in White House after the elections.
Unrest in the foreseeable future in Middle East is a natural corollary from what Clinton has blurted out.
Using the same Saddam Hussain, whom the Americans hunted down later, the inconclusive Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s’ did not fetch the results the US strategists had hoped for.
Bush in private may have been regretting his ill-executed Iraq adventure but it is dawning on the American people that the Iraq fiasco is not Vietnam. The US got away lightly with Vietnam and hardly any repercussions were felt on American soil, except for the tales Vietnam veterans narrated or the body bags that were brought back.
Abandoning Iraq to civil war is bound to chase the American security forces back home.
Using Bin Laden against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan and then abandoning the devastated country recoiled to bring down the World Trade Towers. USA did not suffer so many casualties on mainland America even in the two World Wars of the 20th Century.
The scenario from a premature pull out from Iraq could be worse.
Much of the oil rich desert land is bound to pass onto Iranian backed Shitie leadership and they certainly are opposed to American interests in the area.
Surely that cannot be permitted. And thus a confrontation with a Nuclear or Non-Nuclear Iran is inevitable.
Hillary Clinton has only spilled the beans of what the American foreign policy will shape upto incase Democrats win the decisive 2008 elections.
