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Kasz216 on 25 April 2009
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akuma587 said:
Kasz216 said:
akuma587 said:
I'll be happy if Iraq turns out to be a war we ultimately win. I don't want it to disintegrate like Vietnam did. I don't benefit from that in any way whatsoever and it would just hurt everyone, especially the Iraqi people. I just think we wanted to get our dicks wet with another war and didn't realize what we were getting ourselves into, like we did with Vietnam.

It wasn't that.  It was just a complete lack of planning.  Iraq had no reason to end up how it did.  Except for an incredible lack of planning and a number of really stupid maneuvers as soon as they took over.

 

Vietnam was an unwinnable war because it was a groundwar with the chinese.  In which we couldn't invade to far without worrying about provoking setting off a nuclear war.

Absolutely, but the end result is similar.  Our exit strategy was just plain non-existent (partially because I think some people in charge didn't WANT to leave Iraq).  Too much financial opportunity. 

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/blood-and-oil-how-the-west-will-profit-from-iraqs-most-precious-commodity-431119.html

Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Defense Secretary at the time of the war and now head of the World Bank, told Congress: "We're dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction, and relatively soon."

Yeah... too bad it didn't work out like that.  Well not really, since that would likely just lead to the country eventually breaking off the deals anyway since nobody can actually force Iraq to keep those contracts.

I mean Venezula is seen as the riskiest country in the world to invest in oil, because you never know when they're president is just going to break their deal.

Besides if it wasn't for the Iraq war... the videogame industry would of been screwed.  I mean where would First Person Shooters be without Private military groups based off blackwater!