RE: Is world better without Saddam?
December 30, 2015 at 4:18 pm
(This post was last modified: December 30, 2015 at 4:30 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I seriously doubt conclusions that begin with the notion that keeping him in power is/was the only way any scenario better than the one we're currently in could have been arrived upon. Mutual exclusivity isn't even a factor. If there were some other way to provide the "stability" saddam brings to the table, without needing Saddam...pretty sure that's a better option. It's very dfifficult to believe that Saddam Hussein was capable of something that no one else in the world was, or even in Iraq alone.
Just a moment ago I was being told that we both could and did predict this outcome. The way to win a war is to avoid it, believe it's been said. We did try the latter. Sanctions had failed to produce results. Iraq was a failed state, Saddam a despot. We could have taken our chances (more appropriately some other group of peoples chances) with doing nothing....we certainly do that elsewhere..as we've all just been reminded.
Just a moment ago I was being told that we both could and did predict this outcome. The way to win a war is to avoid it, believe it's been said. We did try the latter. Sanctions had failed to produce results. Iraq was a failed state, Saddam a despot. We could have taken our chances (more appropriately some other group of peoples chances) with doing nothing....we certainly do that elsewhere..as we've all just been reminded.
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