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Originally Posted by Undertoad
Can you make the argument without involving Iraq or knee-jerk thinking? Because we're talking about an entirely different country with entirely different conditions. For example, all the decision-makers you mention are no longer in office.
And while history repeats itself, it never repeats itself exactly. Predicting a future exactly like the past is generally a failure.
This post is not as intelligent as your previous ones and we like the intelligent ones better. Thank you.
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Oh dear, please don't do that Undertoad. You are not as smooth a baiter as you'd like to believe.
Yes, clearly because influential people involved in the decision-making over Iraq no longer hold office, they are utterly powerless and unlistened to by current decision makers or the media, who can drive the narrative on any decision quite easily. Furthermore, all decisions are made at the overt political level and by elected leaders, and certainly no bureaucrats, think tank members, military personnel or diplomats have vested ideological interests of any kind, or indeed supported such action before.
And of course, Iraq was an aberration in the history of intervention. Never mind that
vast majority of US and NATO interventions are failures when it comes to establishing strong governments that respect human rights, I'm sure they'll get this one right.
Damn, I really should try this intelligent thinking thing a little more, shouldn't I?