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January 17, 2025 3:15 p.m.

I’m beginning to get a robust Iraq Conflict vibe about Greenland.

By this, I wish to be clear, I don’t imply that I anticipate a catastrophic and ruinous U.S. invasion to happen. I’m referring to one thing totally different … however let’s simply say: nonetheless not nice. One among my strongest recollections of these darkish instances 20-plus years in the past was a peculiar dynamic that took maintain in Washington after the 9/11 terrorist assaults. The will to invade Iraq was already a giant factor in elite conservative circles within the late Clinton years. That was the origin of the “Iraq Liberation Act” of 1998. After the 9/11 assaults, the Bush administration rapidly made clear it wished to overthrow the Iraqi regime both as retaliation for the assaults or as some kind of preemptive motion to forestall future assaults. The anomaly was after all an vital inform about what and why any of this was occurring.

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