Willravel

I'd like to rewrite this slightly:

This war was a strategic move designed to force a 'democracy' on a sectarian, theocratic society that had been living under a false democracy (false-republic) for decades under tyrannical rule that we helped to create because we were unwilling or unable to have a healthy and mutually beneficial international relationship with the former Soviet Union. The simple plan was to, under the guise of both national security (proven incorrect) and humanitarian removal of a dictator (we kill more than Saddam), gain military and economic—and even social—dominance over a region rich in the only natural resource that our government seems to be interested in, despite the fact that not only will this resource will run dry soon and we will kill tens to hundreds of thousands of innocent people.

To say simply that this wasn't planned well overlooks the glaring fundamental flaws to the plan. Not only were the logistics overlooked—we don't have the manpower, oil is a very short term investment, the Baath military wouldn't just stop fighting—, but the entire endeavor was completely unethical from any and every standpoint. That unethicality* of the war clearly would ruin MANY of our strongest alliances and decimate our reputation further. The fact that the UK, our long time bitch, is withdrawing troops is not but further proof that even our closest allies cannot support us in this. We've lost 3,300 men and women serving in the military who simply wanted to serve our country honorably.



*that's a new word, and I've just coined it