It literally was, Saddam Hussein started 2 wars, 1 genocide alone - he was during the 90s the biggest risk for stability in the Middle east. Syria was still tr

It literally was, Saddam Hussein started 2 wars, 1 genocide alone - he was during the 90s the biggest risk for stability in the Middle east. Syria was still trying to do pan-arabism by destabilizing any country it deemed going against this ambition. Lebanon had JUST stopped it's 25 year civil war, countless terrorist organizations springing up and the list goes on and on. I never stated it justified the invasion, I'm just pointing out that proclaiming that the USA with 1 war caused the entire middle east to implode is not true. The only truth to the instability of the middle east is a mixture of the Cold war and political movement such as pan-arabism and Islamism, these caused the biggest political instability and thus decadent and stagnant power structure in those countries (effectively that of typical power over everything). You said it yourself, as a non-american, of course, I never said "globally speaking", I specifically said for Americans. The Iraq war would have been a different story if there was an actual understand by the Bush administration of what actually was the fundamental issues with Iraq beyond the maniac decision making of Saddam Hussein. The fact that the Bush administration in it's arrogance believed the naive belief of bringing democracy & freedom to Iraqis was all would be required to ensure stability in the region was and still is a painful lesson for the western world on how to create stability in an unstable nation. From what I know people are nostalgic towards Bush because he seems more diplomatic, compromising and composed than what Trump does - while defiantly not true while Bush was in office, people like putting on rose tinted glasses when presented with the bleak present.