RE: Is world better without Saddam?
December 30, 2015 at 8:21 am
(This post was last modified: December 30, 2015 at 8:24 am by The Grand Nudger.)
More absurdity. The removal of a despot needn't be undertaken for altruistic reasons...it is still the removal of a despot. That we haven;t removed -every- despot or some other despot is no excuse as to why we would leave one particular despot in place. We aren't 5 years old handing out lollipops on a system of "everybody gets one or nobody gets one".
You are here now decrying the loss of Saddams controlling influence without acknowledging the manner in which he cultivated and exerted that control, understandably so - as an ackowledgement of this is reason aplenty to depose him. America was lied into a war, sure. America dropped the ball, sure. None of this changes the fact that Iraq was a failed state headed by a despot. All of our embarrassment or discomfort with our own leaders, or policies...with the turn of events in the middle east, none of this changes that.
You are here now decrying the loss of Saddams controlling influence without acknowledging the manner in which he cultivated and exerted that control, understandably so - as an ackowledgement of this is reason aplenty to depose him. America was lied into a war, sure. America dropped the ball, sure. None of this changes the fact that Iraq was a failed state headed by a despot. All of our embarrassment or discomfort with our own leaders, or policies...with the turn of events in the middle east, none of this changes that.
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