baseman posted:We shouldn't have ousted Sadaam!! That was a strategic blunder!!
Hind sight is exactly that, looking at your backsides. Saddam was a butcher, a mad butcher and what he was doing the the Swamp Arabs, the Kurds was untenable. We are faced with the same dilemma with ISIS. No one wants to go in because they do not want to do what conquering armies has to do to win...occupy space. Airstrikes combined with fighting between factions on the ground will simply destroy the entire region. It is either you go in and try to constitute some order or stay out and watch the genocide and Europe will have to dump refuges into the desert because Europe cannot take in all that wants to come. Nations are natrions only if they can maintain some semblance of internal order. Saddam needed to die. Maybe the new realty of not holding space but containing the factions in it and their citizens as well means letting the feuding factions kill each other to the point of extinction and their citizens as well. You decide.