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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: greenspirit who wrote (117588)10/24/2003 1:24:43 PM
From: Sun Tzu  Read Replies (3) of 281500
 
Correct. The point I am making is that we were intervening. It just wasn't giving us the results we wanted. The implication you statement and others like it is that invading Iraq was the only thing to do because nobody was doing anything. While the fact of the matter is that we were actively flying over Iraq and had sufficiently intervened to prevent Saddam be a threat to anyone but the Iraqis themselves. Now if we had changed the requirements, all we had to do was to open it to debate and come up with different set of intervening scheme. Invasion was but one of such methods. Given clear goals, I am sure we could have come up with different solutions.

[edit: instead of saying it wasn't working, I should have said we changed our minds about what results we wanted those interventions give us.]
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