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Strategies & Market Trends : ajtj's Post-Lobotomy Market Charts and Thoughts
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To: ajtj99 who wrote (33563)8/16/2021 11:19:11 PM
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There is wise saying, you can get anything you want but you cannot get everything you want.

The Iraq war was doomed from the start not just because it was hard to do (you are suggesting it was impossible), but because it's various stakeholders had very different agendas and very different timelines.

The Kurds made greater social progress during the no-fly zone era under Saddam than the rest of Iraq did over the next 10 years. Why? Because they got a protected hands off approach. So you could have done nation building in Iraq IF you had created a canton system plus some funds and some guidance but stayed mostly hands off.

The problem of course would have been that (a) the oil companies would not have gotten their take (not quickly anyway). And (b) you would not be having a US friendly government (again not right away). Both of these objectives would have taken at least 10 - 20 years to achieve.

Similarly, you could have gotten the oil, but not a good public image for the US.

Or you could have gotten a super US friendly government but not one that would have been representative of the Iraqis that would be the shining example the neocons dreamed of.

As a result of this internal conflict of the objectives, the US paid a maximum price, longest time, and got the lowest return on investment.
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