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Originally posted by RawAlex@Mar 5 2004, 04:30 PM
Wig,
1) Capturing and killing Osama would be a much bigger message. No need to blow a whole non-terrorist sponsoring nation to bits to do it. There are plenty of places much more deserving on that basis.
2) Unlikely. Iraq is a country destined for a dictatorship, in one form or another. At this point, the people aren't even able to agree to have an agreement to agree to setting up an interim government appointed by them to be replaces be a democratically elected government some time in the future.
3) Also unlikely in the long run. I don't think Iraq will allow the US troops to stay on their soil for all that long... it just isn't politically popular in the end of the world. With the US working from Kuwait and other neighboring countries (including Turkey) adding bases of operation here is just a duplication of existing military setups. The only potential would be to allow the US to move all of their troops out of Saudi Arabia.
Alex
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Alex,
I am not trying to say what is right or wrong or what will or will not work. I am simply assessing the rational for why the decision was made -- in it's totality.
I said as the war started that it was a strategic choice, including oil and what I listed above.
All the opinions you just listed as a response my question are just that -- opinions.
You come across as a partisan person whose whole angle is pointing out that the other guy's glass is half empty.