Iran is planning an attack on Israel with drones and missiles from Iraqi territory. Once again showing that Dubya and the Straussian Neo-Cons didn´t know what they were doing when they invaded Iraq back in 2003. The liberated Shia Muslims don´t seem particularly grateful and mostly support Iran...
In hindsight, the US should simply have bribed some Baathist general to stage a coup against Saddam Hussein, and then accepted some kind of neutrality from the neo-Baath regime. Instead, the adventurism of the Bush admin led to the Iranian mullahs extending their influence all over the Middle East.
I´m sure *nobody* saw this coming back in 2003, naaah.
"the US should simply have bribed some Baathist general to stage a coup against Saddam Hussein" ... Husseins grepp över statsapparaten var förmodligen för starkt för att. detta skulle ha varit möjligt.
ReplyDeleteEven better in hindsoght: Just let the Gulf-states sort out their conflicts themselves as long as the Victor keeps selling the oil at an OK price.
ReplyDeleteWhen Saddam invaded invaded Kuwait, US should just have told him: -You better make sure we still can buy the oil at the same price price as before, preferably cheaper.Otherwise...
ReplyDeleteThat message should be delivered in a discreet and "respectfull" way so that it wouldnt be to obvious that the US viewed Saddam as its bitch.