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by barrkel
5712 days ago
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I don't really see how you're contradicting what I wrote. The "look out, he's got a gun" excuse was largely a BS attempt to sell the war to the public, but the philosophical idea - the long-run reason for wanting to go to war in the middle east for a long time - has much of its roots in this domino theory. I think they really did expect to find a few fragments of evidence that would back up the "he's got a gun" excuse. I think they were genuinely surprised Saddam hadn't kept something going in private. But I don't think it was the strategic reason for wanting to go to war; an unrealistic and naive (but profitable) ideology was. |
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The ideology of the neoconservatives who fabricated the war was plain and simple: America must the be the world's superpower at all costs. This implies backup governments that are friendly to American interests, regardless of their political affiliations. There is nothing naive about that, it is simply perverse and disregards all concerns for human life or regional peace.