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Originally posted by roger_ramjet: There are ALWAYS repercussions, max. No matter which road you take you don't escape them. I'll take my chances with the ones that now await us than what we would have faced had we traveled further down the road we were on. Iraq has a great deal of oil wealth, the most powerful country on earth on it's side instead of against it and the tyrant's grip has been broken. I like Iraq's chances a helluva lot better now than they were a month ago. Diplomatic repercussions? Yeah, I'll bet there will be more than a few after the images from this morning are broadcast around the world. I haven't the slightest doubt that those who so recently opposed us will now find it useful to start mending fences. |
Like Simey, I would love to agree with you and will be DAMNED happy if I am wrong. I do not disagree that Hussein needed to go. I do not dissagree that the chances are better. I simply don't have the faith for a sunset ending to this. For me, it was less about the war than it was about what surrounds it. I see joyous faces on many Iraqis. Good. What about the rest of it? Like it has been said, the military steam roll was the (comparatively) easy part.