freecounterpoint: Iraq the TragiQomical

Sunday, December 25, 2011

Tecumseh said...: The statements were made in messages Gen Firouzabadi sent to his Iraqi counterpart, Lieutenant General Babaker Zebari, and to Iraq's acting defence minister, Saadun al-Dulaimi, IRNA said. The departure of the US troops "was due to the resistance and determination of the Iraqi people and government," he said. "I hope the humiliating failure of the United States after nine years of occupying Iraq will serve as a lesson for them to never think of attacking another country," he said.

Where is the "Capitulatorum Rex" label?; 12/25/2011 2:49 PM
Arelcao Akleos said...: I decided that Obama's actions may be more consistently understood by the particular Divas label I chose. In other words, I don't think his decision to abandon Iraq was based on the same sort of motivations as Chamberlains.... more like those of Vichy.; 12/25/2011 2:53 PM
Tecumseh said...: Ah. That's a novel take. I sort of see what you're getting at, but the analogy is rather strained: Pétain and Laval got in power on the back of the Panzerdivisionen. One would probably need to go further back in history to try for a parallel--though I'm not sure there is a good one.; 12/25/2011 2:59 PM
Arelcao Akleos said...: There is General Wu..but that was under the temptations of greed, not ideological affinity.
There is the Manchurian Candidate...but that was inspired fiction, not History.
Let me look....; 12/25/2011 3:06 PM