Originally Posted by
Rudy Tamasz
I mean Iraq, first of all. I don't question the right of the U.S. to launch the preemptive strikes if the terrorist threat is real but in the case of Iraq it wasn't. The invasion was unnecessary. What's I'm saying is not the wisdom of hindsight. Most facts about terrorism sponsoring and WMD were clear enough back then. What happened, the U.S. gov't decided to invade anyway and turned Iraq into a bloody mess. As bad as Saddam was, an ordinary citizen, Arab or Kurd, Sunni, Shiite or Christian had way better chances of walking to the grocery store and coming back home alive with food for his kids, than he does now in the liberated Iraq. ISIS is the direct if distant result of the 2003 invasion, which created the vacuum of power. I'm afraid something like that can happen again if the U.S. attacks ISIS, just worse. I don't see a good solution to this mess.