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| Topic | What's the consensus on going into Iraq? |
| SHRlKE 04/08/24 12:05:02 PM #23: | Vampire_Chicken posted...
It was one of those decisions that makes sense and has a certain degree of moral justification on paper. But when that piece of paper is the back of an envelope, and the decision costs tens of thousands of lives because you think that "mission accomplished" simply means successfully taking a country apart without needing to know how to put it back together again, then it's a bad decision. Exactly. Also Saddam was a murderous shithead no doubt. But we saw when we pulled out the power vacuum that was created and ISIS were arguably worse. Getting rid of Saddam just to have him replaced with ISIS wasnt a good outcome. It caused the entire region to destabilise. I guess the only two questions that matter are Is Iraq / Middle East in general in a better place than before we went in. Is the western world a safer place now than before we went in. Im not sure it hard to suggest things are worse now than before. Hell look at Afghanistan where we spent 20 years, trillions of dollars and thousands and deaths to replace the Taliban with... the Taliban. --- Come join us at the Sudoku + Other Pencil Puzzles Community Board. https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/1572-sudoku-plus-other-pencil-puzzles ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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