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In reply to the discussion: What's our moral responsibility to Iraqis? [View all]gratuitous
(82,849 posts)By cutting off the dictatorship and without having any sort of plan in place, the United States let Iraq fall right off the cliff. As brutal and dysfunctional as the Saddam regime was, it had a grotesque internal logic, such that the populace knew what it needed to do to avoid (for the most part) the depradations of the dictator. Lopping off the top man and his sons, destroying the country's infrastructure, and offering nothing but more weaponry to the various factions all but guaranteed that no one would gain the upper hand post-Saddam. And now that the soldiers under Saddam have had a chance to re-form themselves into ISIS (with armaments generously supplied by us via the government-sanctioned security forces who keep leaving them behind after being routed by ISIS), we'll be seeing endless factional fighting because the United States has no other solution to offer but more arms.
It's almost as if we want them to keep warring with one another. I think we owe the Iraqis big time for destroying their country.