What was wrong with the toppling of Panama by the US? The fact that Iraq wasn't as straightforward as Panama is part of the reason why we needed to se...
No, my policy for Iraq (and other countries) at this stage in world history is to install democracy and let the winners of democratic elections kill p...
My ideology is freedom as I define it. ie living under a rational, humanist, non-subjugating government. And democracy is the *only* system of governm...
Once a decision had been made that Saddam needed to be removed for other reasons, the US did indeed take the exact action of merely liberating the Ira...
Even if someone did predict it, they would have had their opinion drowned out by people predicting that the Iraqis would act near-uniformly one way or...
"they" didn't do just one thing. They were split 50/50 on whether Iraq was "liberated" or "humiliated". No-one at all predicted such a split. The pred...
I'll need something specific to be able to contest the claim, and it's far from obvious. Ending the Iraqi holocaust (including institutional rape) is ...
Also note that Sistani was under pressure to declare a jihad on the invading force. There would have been a very messy bloodbath if he had done that. ...
Yes, well said. Yes, exactly right. Basically they're not putting themselves into the shoes of an Iraqi. Let's see if we can get agreement with your/m...
No, the occupation was done perfectly too, given the information available at the time. It was necessary to disband the old security forces, and hope ...
I am familiar with the term, and I have read the Wikipedia article on it. I suspect that all I am doing is trying to get the 2003 Iraq war agreed to a...
Ok, that's another assumption. People have different definitions of "freedom". Mine is "living under a rational, humanist, non-subjugating (in that or...
There were multiple reasons given, not just one. It was better for the US to focus on that one thing so as to not spook allied dictators. No, this is ...
In my opinion, it was conducted near-perfectly, given what was known at the time. There were a lot of people who said it was impossible for Arab Musli...
"We" is the free world. And yes, it is a stated assumption that we want a just world, instead of dismissing this world as some sort of purgatory that ...
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