RE: Is world better without Saddam?
December 30, 2015 at 11:49 am
(This post was last modified: December 30, 2015 at 11:50 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Here again...because some dictators get away with it, because the system is gameable, because the world is imperfect, because bad things...even worse things...are happening elsewhere...these are not, to my mind, reasons to allow any specific dictator to continue doing his thing.
We did have a plan. We had many plans. Realize that we generated mountains and mountains of plans because there is an army of people who do nothing but produce them day in and day out (just as we have mountains of predictions, and an army of people making those). Our failure had nothing to do with a lack of plans, or planning options. Our failure was not, as you point out, being unaware of the possible outcomes of our actions.
We did have a plan. We had many plans. Realize that we generated mountains and mountains of plans because there is an army of people who do nothing but produce them day in and day out (just as we have mountains of predictions, and an army of people making those). Our failure had nothing to do with a lack of plans, or planning options. Our failure was not, as you point out, being unaware of the possible outcomes of our actions.
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