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Originally Posted by mixedmedia
I'd just like to throw the weight of my own sentiment behind Smethy on this one. And I have to say that I am continually shocked at the flippant dismissal towards OUR MESS that so many people who call themselves liberals display. It's not as if you COULD just walk away anyway.
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To simply say it's 'our mess' ignores to the complexity of the situation. For one, there was going to be civil war after the removal of the Baath leadership no matter what. If the UN had stepped in and removed the Hussain leadership, there still would probably be a civil war, though it probably wouldn't be as big. If the Iraqis had removed Saddam themselves, there would have been a civil war to remove Saddam, then another to find out who was in charge next. If no one did anything, when Saddam eventually died his kids and nephews would have started a civil war for control.
The Bush administration was the catalyst to something that was, for the most part, eventual. The difference is that we handled it much worse than anyone ever could have guessed possible. The mismanagement, lack of planning, and overt theft and power grab are the reasons this situation has become so dire. It stand to reason that continuing the current path is not just mind numbingly obtuse, but it's going to be detrimental to the safety of people from Iraq to the UK and even back to the US. The longer we stay there, the more we invite guerilla attacks from radical elements of people sympathetic to Arabs and/or Muslims who are being occupied, suppressed, abused, tortured, and murdered. That's right, I'm not using the "t" word.