Without a single excuse for Saddam's brutality: That war, and the ensuing disastrous occupation, wrecked the region.https://twitter.com/rich1/status/750677987486490624 …
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The callous disregard for life & well-being of the people of Iraq especially during the occupation has no excuse. Iraqi lives didn't matter.
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Pre-2001 Taliban sprung up in the dismal refugee camps in Pakistan, lives & families destroyed, unbalanced by the Soviet war & occupation.
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Middle East was already troubled. Iran-Iraq war; Gulf dictatorships; Israel/Palestine... We went in, almost literally, with a wrecking ball.
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It is absolutely false that Middle East or Afghanistan, Pakistan do not have non-violent movements or reform attempts. So many. So, so many.
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All this talk about ancient hatreds; irredeemable people; intractable religious dogma. An excuse to look away from the last 40 years.
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The past four decades in the Middle East (and Aghanistan) have been non-stop horror; with much external involvement. Of course it's a wreck.
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Yet the people keep trying. Even in Syria, current efforts at protests and democratic, elected councils. People try the moment guns stop.
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Can the Middle East get better? Of course. If Germany can be part of EEC (pre-EU) 10 years after committing genocide, so can these nations.
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Germany did not emerge alone. It was showered with aid & given a path out. Middle East remains a land for proxy wars—its people disregarded.
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W. Germany was in ECSC *5* years after VE Day. But the occupying-troops-to-civilians ratio was 3x higher than in Iraq. So no chaos.
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