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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Dayuhan who wrote (217031)2/8/2007 10:57:52 PM
From: Sam  Read Replies (3) of 281500
 
The subsequent objective - establishing a functional and generally accepted government in Iraq - was not appropriate to an armed force, and may not have been achievable by any means available to the US.

Not just "may" not have been achievable; it could not be achieved.

There was a long debate in the US after the French Revolution in 1789 about whether it would succeed or not. Jefferson and many Democrat-Republicans (as his party was called in the 1790s) said yes, and welcomed it. Adams, Hamilton and virtually all Federalists said no, it will never work, the aren't suited for a democratic govt. Eventually, around 1815 or so, Jefferson conceded to Adams in a letter that he had been wrong about the Revolution, Adams had been right all along.

BTW, hope you start posting more often.

To think that all that had to be done was get rid of Saddam was the height of idiocy and ignorance of history. Anyone who goes back to when Iraq was founded should have known this. Even before the Baathists came to power, there was no stable govt in Iraq. The country was basically made to fail by the British, and it hasn't improved much since. There were something like 57 different govts formed in Iraq between 1921 and 1958. Certainly not all of them failed through violence, but a number of them did. The place is and has been a tinderbox for a long time.
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