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Originally Posted by Lothar5150
30 years from now, you will eat crow when Iraq is the regional leader politically and economically. You fail to consider that to this day thousands of troops still occupy Japan and Germany.
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Before the A-bombs and the firestorms, those countries were regional leaders, politically and economically. No wonder they are again today and nobody's eating crow. Before our coalition bombing inspired Saddam to write "Good God!" on Iraq's flag, Iraq too was the regional leader politically and economically. It (the Iraqi nation I mean) defended the Gulf States from the fanatical and triply populous Iranians. It began to rebuild. Now despite what's been done to Iraq, it will rebuild. Historians will mark a dark chapter in the life of that nation "US intervention".
Isn't it insulting to discount the former strength of the secular Iraqi nation, as though the people's natural state is this anarchy and the key to their development is continued American operations? This just strikes me as a very mean opinion of those people.