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last words about victory

posted 17 years ago by sovok-1
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These last sad words from this guy:

"There is one single thing that would be left - victory. That's it. People like victory. They don't like justifications. You don't have to justify it. Once you are victorious. That's it..."

made me get this question into my head:

Wouldn't it have been a much greater disaster for the world and also ultimately for the USA if the Iraq War had actually been a success?

It's a very inhuman question, I know. But if the Iraq War had been a success all the lies and wrongs of the Bush Administration would have not been exposed. Think about it. Like the guy said. A victory would have all barried this. The public would not know. Everybody would have been happy, nobody would have questioned anything, nobody would criticize anything, their strategy would have worked. The Bush Administration would have gotten away with it.

But the fact that Iraq turned into a disaster, made all this possible. And that's why all other nations are so happy about the fact that USA is stuck in Iraq now and won't help. Because they "got what they deserved". Of course all this only at the cost of all the people that died after declaration of vitory in Iraq. So if you had to choose between "truth" and "~100000 lives". What would you choose? I think I would go with the lives anyway. Maybe some historian from 2100 would have exposed everything and we could have had all the lives and the truth at the end...

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[–] lightningcows 11 years ago

"Wouldn't it have been a much greater disaster for the world and also ultimately for the USA if the Iraq War had actually been a success?"

...this an old thread, so when this question was first posed, it was before the most current developments. However, as a counterpoint, I would say that the lack of success in the Iraq, due to the insurgency, may have hindered willingness to intervene in the crisis in Syria. It is probably a good thing that we are now more circumspect before intervention, but we may have become a little too circumspect, now that Syria has been engulfed in turmoil for about 2 years now.