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I think our motivations can be attributed to all of factors included in the OP and most of the other observations made on this thread. And, personally, I don't have a problem with any of them in theory.
The fatal flaw, so to speak, could have been in the hubris exhibited by our leadership that believed it could force a very diverse and prideful region of the planet into submission within the time constraints of two presidential terms.
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