Quatermass wrote:
And people are SURPRISED the Iraq invasion was a SNAFU?
While Saddam Hussein was a tyrant, and should have been removed, the method used was like using a chainsaw to remove a brain tumour. Iraq is now worse off than under Hussein. The invasion will (and already) has fuelled the Muslim extremists call for Jihad, which, BTW, apparently means "proselytising" rather than literally "holy war". What's worse, people equate "terrorist" with "Muslim". While I am myself not a Muslim, and acknowledge that many Muslims have done terrible things (honour killings and of course terrorism), a terrorist can mean anyone who decides to use terror to their own ends.
Iran itself is dangerous, but not immediately so. The UN must not allow themselves to become a rubber-stamper for the US (or rather, the businessmen who influence US policy, both American and foreign) to do whatever the hell it pleases.
I remember what, at the start of the Cold War, a US politician said:
"The aim now is not to make the world safe for democracy, but rather to make the world safe for the US."
Roman.
Greek.
Russian.
British.
And now we are seeing the rise of the American Empire.
Saddam served a function he kept everyone from killing each other; he was also placed into power by us. We sold him WMD to counter the human waves of Basij. He was our cats paw against Iran just as Osama may possibly be our cats paw for other esoteric justifications (that may be innapropiate for the net). Call me crazy.... but I think it is all over China's economic ascention.- the most evil entity on the planet
