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Originally posted by Undertoad
And here you say it's hard to link Hussein to terrorism. You did it with no trouble at all.
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That is not how the Middle East works. If we attack Iraq, then we become targets of most every of Saddam's Middle East enemies. Need I cite the Muslim Brotherhood who actually contacted the CIA to help in the murder of Syria's Assad? Syria's Assad, Iraq's Saddam, Egypt's Mubarak, and Libya's Kadafi - all adversaries. And yet all are targets of the Muslim Brotherhood. What happens if the US attacks Iraq? Then Americans become targets of the Muslim Brotherhood - those same people who hate Saddam. If you don't understand this, then you don't understand Middle East politics. Just because we attack their enemy, then we instead become their enemy - because we are the outside infidel who interferes.
Welcome to the complexity of the Middle East. Best to first let locals define who attacks whom and only get involved when it becomes as clear cut as a Kuwait invasion. Interfering too early only makes America a target of everyone. But then 1980s Lebanon is where we became everyone's enemy because we only attacked two Muslim factions. I had assumed you understood how these politics work. But then I forget how little too many really read/hear about what happens outside of Philly.
I was just at a funeral where the minister had just returned from Kenya. That naivity by most Americans - and even worse he cited KYW "all news all the time" - was his very first complaint about coming back to his homeland. Most of us don't have a clue about the world, and therefore would support an unprovoked surprise attack on Saddam. Ignorance here is dangerous - made moreso by a President well known for his ignorance of the world.