RE: Is world better without Saddam?
December 30, 2015 at 12:32 pm
(This post was last modified: December 30, 2015 at 12:33 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Those things you've said didn't happen because we toppled Saddam. He wasn't (and isn't) the causative agent in the regions current state. I don't think we're disagreeing on much, if anything, other than this. I think that the notion that Saddam was required is a convenient fiction for american involvement, a way to claim that the current instability of the region can be layed chiefly on it's people and their inability to coexist without a despot reigning them in, rather than our incompetence.
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