That could change.
That Friedmanite constitution that the PNAC dirtbags imposed on them is not a gift. It's an albatross and no less likely to stink in the sun in Iraq than it was in the mountain air of Chile.
Chile worked well. If not, then why is it stabel today? On the other hand, Allende was a stalinist who was on good terms with Fidel Castro (who was also a stalinist).
Iraq was a bad call, yes, but what was the west to do? Let a Stalinist like Saddam Run the country with his Iron Fist? He Embezzled the oil for food money on his palaces. His Kleptocracy would have made Mobutu and Milosevic proud.
Given the BS that we were fed in the past about Iraq, I have no way of knowing that the horror stories about the degenerate Hussien sons were true. I do know that after the ibvasion, the rape rooms at the prisons re-opened under new management.
Let us see, mutilation of dissidents. Last i checked that stopped with saddam's overthrow.
As well as that, there is testimony of Uday Hussein behaving like Lavrentiy Beria.
The difference between American Abu Ghraib and Iraqi Abu Ghraib is that the American soldiers got punished for torture.
We are not, nor should we be, the final arbiters of the decisions of other countries. We have no say in the rule of a nation that is staying within its borders. Don't like being a citizen of what you consider a wimp nation? Find another. This one has been taken over by rational people again.
By that logic, it was A-OK for bill clinton to have stayed back and watched the Tutsis get hacked to death with Machetes in Rwanda, as well as Milosevic to persecute the Kosovars, the Darfur Genocide to continue. Ditto the Gassing of the Kurds, and Pol Pot's Year Zero.
Rational people? The same people who want Ba'athists to regain conrtol of Iraq, like Ramsey Clark? It is a hellholle yes, but It will not get better unless the Islamists are defeated.
Back on topic, there are times and places where outside intervention is necessary. But i agree, Iran is not one of them.
