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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: SARMAN who wrote (228401)4/24/2007 10:18:24 AM
From: michael97123  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
I will try hard here sarman.

There were two core reason behind overthrowing saddam. One had to do with oil and the other planting a western style democracy in the mideast. WMDs were believed to exist but they were just the trigger anyway. If Iraq flourished as a democracy, oil would have been secured and the mideast transformed. It didnt work out because:

1. rummy war on the cheap didnt put enough assets on the ground early on fort his exercise in nation building. Rummy apparently felt this would be victory by osmosis.
2. Other bush admin incompetence and arrogance.
3. NOT SURE HERE but the logic may be fundamentally flawed and the left might be right. Democracy and Arabs mix like oil and water. They are incapable of having it plus civil strife was bubbling under the surface. Remember neocons bought into the strategy but not the tactics in many cases. For me its a toss up on whether this would have ever worked. After watching arabs in palestine squander opportunity after opportunity maybe the lefts racism is called for. Maybe all arab states are doomed to a period of iraqistine. Hell in asia it seemed once that all the asian states needed some communism in their history to smooth the way for capitalism and hopefully democracy which hopefully is happening now even in vietnam.
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