The second installment of Human Events Daily host Jack Posobiec’s new short series, Tales of Regime Change, focused Tuesday on the Iraq War, which Posobiec said reshaped global power dynamics and permanently altered the trajectory of US foreign policy.
Opening the episode, Posobiec framed the 2003 invasion as a turning point with consequences that are still unfolding. “Tales of regime change. Iraq, the war that rewired the world,” he said. “And to be clear, this is the reason that the world is the way it is.”
Posobiec said the war marked the collapse of what had been America’s post-World War II dominance. “America poured trillions into Iraq. America shattered their own myth of liberal hegemony,” he said. “And in fact, ironically, it was the Iraq war and the broader war on terror that destroyed America’s position, its pole position as the only superpower in the world.”
He described the conflict as a moment of strategic overreach. “This is what caused America to overstretch,” Posobiec said. “It caused the American empire, as it were, to be poured out into the sands of places thousands of miles away from America’s shores.”
Posobiec said that overextension brought an end to the international order that had existed since 1945. “It is what ended this system, which had existed since the end of World War II,” he said. “This system of one sort of order in the world has now led to multipolarity. It was Iraq. It all goes back to that.”
Posobiec also accurately tied the war to mass migration out of the Middle East. “Iraq is what began the migrant crisis,” he said. “That’s when we started originally to see these migrants flooding out from the Middle East and into our lands, into European lands, into Christendom.”
He said the effects of that migration continue to shape Western societies. “Where now the attacks on Christians, the rapes of our daughters, the burning of our churches is all done in this clash of civilizations, which continues to this day,” Posobiec said.
Looking ahead, Posobiec warned against viewing Iraq as a one-off mistake. “When you look at the Iraq war, it’s not enough to just say, we’re not going to do it again,” he said. “It’s not enough, because we said that about Vietnam.”
Instead, he said understanding the motivations behind regime-change wars is critical. “You have to understand the motivations that drove it and extended it to understand and unpack that which you will face in another scenario,” he said, citing Iran and Venezuela as examples.
“These do not work,” Posobiec concluded. “And the lies that you are told early on about how great things will be once we topple the dictator or topple the Mullah are always just that. They are lies. They are wrong. And the people saying them seldom actually have that as their true motivation.”
Opening the episode, Posobiec framed the 2003 invasion as a turning point with consequences that are still unfolding. “Tales of regime change. Iraq, the war that rewired the world,” he said. “And to be clear, this is the reason that the world is the way it is.”
Posobiec said the war marked the collapse of what had been America’s post-World War II dominance. “America poured trillions into Iraq. America shattered their own myth of liberal hegemony,” he said. “And in fact, ironically, it was the Iraq war and the broader war on terror that destroyed America’s position, its pole position as the only superpower in the world.”
He described the conflict as a moment of strategic overreach. “This is what caused America to overstretch,” Posobiec said. “It caused the American empire, as it were, to be poured out into the sands of places thousands of miles away from America’s shores.”
Posobiec said that overextension brought an end to the international order that had existed since 1945. “It is what ended this system, which had existed since the end of World War II,” he said. “This system of one sort of order in the world has now led to multipolarity. It was Iraq. It all goes back to that.”
Posobiec also accurately tied the war to mass migration out of the Middle East. “Iraq is what began the migrant crisis,” he said. “That’s when we started originally to see these migrants flooding out from the Middle East and into our lands, into European lands, into Christendom.”
He said the effects of that migration continue to shape Western societies. “Where now the attacks on Christians, the rapes of our daughters, the burning of our churches is all done in this clash of civilizations, which continues to this day,” Posobiec said.
Looking ahead, Posobiec warned against viewing Iraq as a one-off mistake. “When you look at the Iraq war, it’s not enough to just say, we’re not going to do it again,” he said. “It’s not enough, because we said that about Vietnam.”
Instead, he said understanding the motivations behind regime-change wars is critical. “You have to understand the motivations that drove it and extended it to understand and unpack that which you will face in another scenario,” he said, citing Iran and Venezuela as examples.
“These do not work,” Posobiec concluded. “And the lies that you are told early on about how great things will be once we topple the dictator or topple the Mullah are always just that. They are lies. They are wrong. And the people saying them seldom actually have that as their true motivation.”
