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Domspun said:I like to think that the current invasion of Iraq is just a mistake of time. They should have done this in 1991, when there was a real reason to occupy and remove Saddam. Well there always been a lot of good reasons to get rid of Saddam, but in the last years he couldn't do anything except being a stupid and inhuman dictator.
Iraq is not a mistake. In fact, it is a pretty shrewd longterm strategic move. When the Middle East blows up for good in 5, 10 or 20 years, the US will have a giant "base" from which to strike at all the neighboring countries like Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria even Jordan. For that reason, they are also perfectly located to protect Israel against a concerted muslim attack.
However, the reason and the means taken to conduct the war was total horseshit. They failed to subdue the local resistance movement, and by being overly sensitive, they allowed the religious nuts to prosper in Irak - when Saddam had just about succeeded in suppressing them.
If you want to operate in an Imperialist fashion, you do not have the leisure to use velvet gloves - you blow everything up and then rebuild in your own image, Roman Style. And contrary to what you hear in the media or read on MR, this is NOT what is happening in Irak. They are trying to spare everyone and everything, with disastrous results.