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What diplomacy has failed?
"Hey Saddam, even though we allied ourselves with you, supplied you with weapons, and gave you the go-ahead to invade Kuwait... we're gonna have to go ahead and humiliate you in war, then destroy your bridges and factories and steal 60% of your oil reserves for a decade... and then expect you to let us do it again."
That's diplomacy? Saddam is a prick, sure, and he shouldn't have been in control of any populace, definitely. The WMD's aren't there. Diplomacy (or theft) worked, and Saddam didn't have the resources to destroy the world. Suddenly, that makes us the diplomats? Have you followed any of our history with Iraq?
The first words out of my mouth when Bush was given the presidential "win"- "Great. We're going to war." Anyone who thinks Iraq was about diplomacy needs to go take a tour of a Boeing facility. Bushes 1 and 2 were under the gun to produce a profitable war with few casualties, and they did. Billions of dollars have been made with the wars, and taken from the Iraqi oil fields, and defense contractors are cleaning up.
Diplomacy. Heh. Threats, I'd buy. Coercion, sure. Diplomacy, no.
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