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The biggest mistake comes not from being bullish on War - are the smoke screen of WMD - or even the pursuit of an evil dictator.
The biggest mistake - bar none - was in thinking the war had an ending point.
When the powers that be - redivided up the world for their own purposes - the maps that were drawn never took into account long term religious beliefs and long term customs. It is the equivalent of putting square pegs in round holes.
So the result is that you have country's in constant open civil war. You see this in Africa as well as the middle east. If people have been fighting for a number of year than just because you go in and kill some on either one or both sides - you don't end the war you just allow that war to have another enemy - you the third party.
Now as third party you appoint yourself ruler to leave - because you know you don't want to expend the energy trying to keep two groups apart that are determiined to absolutely kill the other side to the last child.
So as ruler to leave you hand pick people for a ruling party with members from both sides. You tell them they have to work it out - those that were in power tell you they had a solution before you came in - those that were not say no solution is possible until you kill those that have been killing them for years.
In the meantime - you stick the thumbs of your soldiers up their asses and tell them not to make either side angry and to try not to take sides. Yeah right - doing this makes them an even bigger target for both sides. You can't fight a war- without taking a side.
So as the politicians on both sides try to kill each other - while the new combined military and police department work to get their sides guns- your occupying force becomes increasingly hostile toward their superiors for giving them death orders and the people they are supposed to be helping for putting them in harms way.
Since this war is officially over there are now fewer and fewer hard targets. To attack you have to wait to be attacked and find out who threw the rock. Or hope that someone turns in the rock thrower before the rock leaves their hands (and then go back and live next to the rock throwers family).
Your options are:
1. Leave immediately and let the inevitable civil war take place - best option for America.
2. Fight both sides until there are no more bad guys - We don't have the necessary time (probably take another 10 years or more).
3. Continue down the road we are on of hoping like hell they can work out a solution we approve of without further major loss of life.
In hindsight:
Saddam in power was better than any of the current options for a solution. Just a brutal fact.
The future will probably be:
We stay until Bush is out and then pull out plunging the area into civil War. Unless open civil war happens first.
Just my thoughts.
The biggest mistake - bar none - was in thinking the war had an ending point.
When the powers that be - redivided up the world for their own purposes - the maps that were drawn never took into account long term religious beliefs and long term customs. It is the equivalent of putting square pegs in round holes.
So the result is that you have country's in constant open civil war. You see this in Africa as well as the middle east. If people have been fighting for a number of year than just because you go in and kill some on either one or both sides - you don't end the war you just allow that war to have another enemy - you the third party.
Now as third party you appoint yourself ruler to leave - because you know you don't want to expend the energy trying to keep two groups apart that are determiined to absolutely kill the other side to the last child.
So as ruler to leave you hand pick people for a ruling party with members from both sides. You tell them they have to work it out - those that were in power tell you they had a solution before you came in - those that were not say no solution is possible until you kill those that have been killing them for years.
In the meantime - you stick the thumbs of your soldiers up their asses and tell them not to make either side angry and to try not to take sides. Yeah right - doing this makes them an even bigger target for both sides. You can't fight a war- without taking a side.
So as the politicians on both sides try to kill each other - while the new combined military and police department work to get their sides guns- your occupying force becomes increasingly hostile toward their superiors for giving them death orders and the people they are supposed to be helping for putting them in harms way.
Since this war is officially over there are now fewer and fewer hard targets. To attack you have to wait to be attacked and find out who threw the rock. Or hope that someone turns in the rock thrower before the rock leaves their hands (and then go back and live next to the rock throwers family).
Your options are:
1. Leave immediately and let the inevitable civil war take place - best option for America.
2. Fight both sides until there are no more bad guys - We don't have the necessary time (probably take another 10 years or more).
3. Continue down the road we are on of hoping like hell they can work out a solution we approve of without further major loss of life.
In hindsight:
Saddam in power was better than any of the current options for a solution. Just a brutal fact.
The future will probably be:
We stay until Bush is out and then pull out plunging the area into civil War. Unless open civil war happens first.
Just my thoughts.
_STLfan_in_DFW@Aug 27 2005, 11:25 AM
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