It is easier to have an enemy you can point to and blame and hate
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It is to help rebuild a nation.

We're already supposed to be helping "rebuild" Afghanistan.

So now we'll get involved in "rebuilding" Iraq?

And this is from a country that didn't even know enough to brief its top officials on the situation before they sent them to discuss the Palestinian/Israeli peace?

Maybe I'm old and cynical, but I don't think that this regime has the insight or FUNDING (what was that about a tax cut?) or guts to do this.

What we'll end up with is another mess in Iraq with a different breed of fundamentalists.

I was thinking more along the lines of a new Marshal Plan (with the same results as we had in Europe).

You're right. We'll elevate the next crew who will happily oppress another bunch while we funnel money and weapons to our new "allies" until they start to get too independant and don't do what the US corporate interests want them to do.

*sigh*