Comments on: US deploys a few troops to Iraq. https://habitablezone.com/2014/06/16/us-deploys-a-few-troops-to-iraq/ Fri, 17 Apr 2026 05:11:30 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: ER https://habitablezone.com/2014/06/16/us-deploys-a-few-troops-to-iraq/#comment-31060 ER Tue, 17 Jun 2014 12:46:03 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=45706#comment-31060 We are more likely to accidentally do something disastrous in the Middle East than we are likely to deliberately accomplish anything worthwhile. To put it in engineering terms, you don't meddle in complex and unstable systems you are totally unfamiliar with. It should have been obvious a decade ago, it should certainly be obvious by now. We are more likely to accidentally do something disastrous in the Middle East than we are likely to deliberately accomplish anything worthwhile.

To put it in engineering terms, you don’t meddle in complex and unstable
systems you are totally unfamiliar with.

It should have been obvious a decade ago, it should certainly be obvious by now.

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