Horatius
NWO Kitty Wrangler
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Uh, doesn't sound plausible to me.
I'd say that Iraq has used up US political credit, both internally and abroad, and there's vanishingly little left. America is now far, far less likely to "get away with invading a foreign nation", because most people will assume any case made is somewhat less than reliable (putting it politely) and look for considerably more evidence. Far from establishing "an important precedent of unprovoked war", they've made it very difficult to imagine how that could happen again.
Exactly right. In the lead up to the Iraq war, I thought the publicly available evidence was pretty weak, but I gave them the benefit of the doubt, as I figured they must have better, classified, info, that they simply couldn't share for legitimate reasons. Turns out, they didn't.
So now, how likely am I to make such a mistake again? Not Very. Great precedent, there, NWO!