hershel_layton said:
Aura7541 said:
That is true, though I felt that Iraq was a very complicated situation. Saddam Hussein didn't have a clean record. He tried to annex Kuwait and committed genocide against the Kurds. There wasn't a 'good' solution to how to deal with Saddam. The biggest mistake, in my opinion, was what the US did after the invasion. They threw him out of power and then went, "Okay, now what...?" There wasn't a clear plan and Bush's "Plant the seeds of democracy and it will spread throughout the Middle East" statement was extremely misguided. The invasion might be well-intentioned, but that is not enough to justify it.
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Yet this democracy is what we continue to attempt to give...though, look at the outcomes. Remember the vietnam war and our attempt to give democracy? Didn't end so well, did it?
Also, doing less would mean that we could potentially be in a better situation. Islamic groups may have not had the chance to rise and take any sort of power. Sure, Sadam Hussein isn't exactly a saint, but at least Iraq would have been kept in control.3
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Don't get me wrong, I hold the position that the US shouldn't have invaded Iraq, though it wouldn't been an easy decision knowing Sadam's track record. In regards to the Vietnam War, I hold similar views as those on the Iraq War. The intentions were well-meaning, but how the US went about it was a total other story and that was its ultimate downfall, in my opinion.
