(May 8, 2014 at 9:21 pm)Ryantology (╯°◊°)╯︵ ══╬ Wrote: Yeah, so reprehensible that there would be hundreds of thousands of them still alive today to do something about the problem on their own. So reprehensible even though it was obviously the right thing to do because our intervention was a catastrophic failure on every level, starting with the premise and ending with trillions in national debt due to us borrowing to pay for it. Note, of course, that I'm just going along with the idea that the true premise that this war was anything but an excuse to line some pockets with black gold that happened to come with a convenient excuse, because it's been eleven years and most of us figured it out quite a long time ago.
Gamblers(ones that actually make money), call this being results orientated. Basically a gambler(one that actually makes money) will not make a bet unless it has a positive expectation of profit. If they lose the bet, it still doesn't mean it was a bad bet to make. Just because you don't like the way this war turned out, doesn't mean it was a bad decision to go to war.
Japan and Germany turned out nicely after we clobbered them. It seems western style democracy can be exported by the barrel of the gun sometimes.
What happens in the long run Iraq remains to be seen.
