jimmoyer wrote:
Had Saddam been left alone you would have seen even more support for him than ever before.
As a David against Goliath, you would have seen him continue to finance Palestinian suicide bombers, continue to build his palaces, continue to provide substandard education and infrastructure for his people while ruling over the shi-ites and his own sunni people with fear and reprisal. And then the big propaganda move would be to join Hugo Chavez.
The old status quo would have continued, festering for another 10 years until his death and then you'd see what you are seeing NOW.
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Ocean Breeze responded with:
there is NO way to make such a definitive statement about what might have been........as there is NO way of knowing what would have happened.
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I pose the alternative possibility ONLY because it is a PRACTICAL MATTER leaders of the world have to make all the time.
Sure there is NO WAY, but we people do it all the time, and so must our leaders.
It is always good to compare what we have NOW with what we MIGHT have avoided.
This leads to the THEORY OF NOW and its fallacy is that it lives on an island unconnected with things that might have been or things that were avoided.
It gives us a perspective greater than those who only look at NOW.
Had Saddam been left alone you would have seen even more support for him than ever before.
As a David against Goliath, you would have seen him continue to finance Palestinian suicide bombers, continue to build his palaces, continue to provide substandard education and infrastructure for his people while ruling over the shi-ites and his own sunni people with fear and reprisal. And then the big propaganda move would be to join Hugo Chavez.
The old status quo would have continued, festering for another 10 years until his death and then you'd see what you are seeing NOW.
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Ocean Breeze responded with:
there is NO way to make such a definitive statement about what might have been........as there is NO way of knowing what would have happened.
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I pose the alternative possibility ONLY because it is a PRACTICAL MATTER leaders of the world have to make all the time.
Sure there is NO WAY, but we people do it all the time, and so must our leaders.
It is always good to compare what we have NOW with what we MIGHT have avoided.
This leads to the THEORY OF NOW and its fallacy is that it lives on an island unconnected with things that might have been or things that were avoided.
It gives us a perspective greater than those who only look at NOW.