RE: Whats wrong?
Leave Saddam there? Now.. if I had advocated fighting a war on morale grounds.. (and I dont), suggesting that people should live under his thumb is ridiculous. Better to die in a civil conflict against a system you can fight versus dying in a torture chamber after your daughters were raped by his sons.
But as I suggested in the beginning - I don't advocate morale wars. The church has done that enough in history for me. I advocated the war on the basis of kicking the pins out from under the political and geopolitical system that is in place in the middle east (much of which is the fault of US and Western European backing in the first place). Why kick the pins out? I can blithely say "to fight terrorism", and to a degree - -be honest when I say that. On the other hand, forcing a change in the geopolitical balance and allowing us to exert continued and extended force for our own ends is the primary reason among reasons.
Don't kid yourself that any other war is ever fought for any other reason. Self-interest. No one sends their 18 year old sons off to fight to save some other schmuck in in a desert or african jungle, or even eastern asia. Maintaining and advancing our economic, political, and military supremancy is the goal -- and the goal of every other nation.
Did the UN approve of our invasion? No. Would they, could they, under any other circumstance in the political climage of 2001? No. Too many political forces at work, too strong. China, Russia, France, Germany (the French/German/Russian block of 2001 being the anchor in this case).
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