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Strategies & Market Trends : Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis
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To: Little Joe who wrote (91826)12/20/2008 1:06:53 AM
From: Sr K  Read Replies (1) of 116555
 
For the "happy scenario", how would we know that it was helped along by Bush and Rice and whomever? That might take ~20 years to take hold and be considered "achieved" using Bush's approach.

OTOH it might interfere with achieving a multi-lateral, multi-national resolution to most Mideast conflict. Why even put Iraq at the center of that potential solution? I'd rather have an agreement among equals.

But think ahead to that point.

Was removing Saddam Hussein helpful in getting to that point?

[This could come down to: Were GHW Bush and Colin Powell correct? Did they have maturity and insight into all (or the preponderance of) the conditions, costs, and benefits of imbalancing Iraq, and the management skills to choose a course that rejected, more or less, the course GW Bush chose?]

Was killing nnnnnn Iraqis helpful? Was all the collateral damage (non-human) helpful? And was it worth the loss of American lives, ally lives, and those on our side physically injured?

Was it helpful in getting Sunni and Shiite and Kurds to share government or share oil revenue (or operations) or anything? Was it helpful to have Iraqi oil off the market while we exacerbated supply-demand pressures by filling and retaining the SPR?

What exactly did our invasion and $600 billion, or whatever number you prefer, achieve to get to that happy scenario? And at what cost to our own economy and currency?

I guess the best response by many would be "we haven't been attacked since." I say we attacked ourselves.
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