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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: GST who wrote (150173)11/1/2004 10:13:16 AM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (3) of 281500
 
Yes, it had strategic value, which means that your sole datum is Iraq. But it does not have strategic resources, as you have charged--- that is, nothing worth grabbing. Afghanistan represents progress, which is by increments.

Iraq is the test case, a rather unique one, where the previous administration called for regime change, and where there was a nearly universal assumption that Iraq was a substantial threat to Western security, the argument being between those supporting containment and those supporting overthrow. But the issue was not success, but motive, and there is nothing to indicate that the neocons were not motivated by an honest desire to overthrow a brutal dictatorship and supplant it with a moderate, democratic regime.
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