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I could not agree more. The second gulf war led to ISIS and the rise of the Quds force and the general destruction of society in Iraq/Syria. ISIS is an an exis
by haltingproblem 6y ago
I could not agree more.
The second gulf war led to ISIS and the rise of the Quds force and the general destruction of society in Iraq/Syria. ISIS is an an existential danger to the world as asymmetrical warfare can have high-impact outcomes beyond our imagination. In comparison, Saddam's Bath party was secular socialists.
Libyan intervention led to the disintegration of a stable and despotic regime but today there are slave markets in Libya!
Our best hope is that the Saudi regime shrivels and withers away but undoing 50 years of Wahabism will take hundreds of years.
- Mediterraneo10 6y agoSaddam's Baath party were no longer "secular socialists" by the time of the US invasion. Saddam Hussein had begun pivoting towards islamism already in 1993. This had little to do with any direct US actions, and can to a large extent be blamed on the collapse of the USSR and Eastern Bloc, which discredited the secular Arab socialist traditions as a viable force.