After killing Saddaam, what was the mission?
It seems to me it was to make Muslim people not be like Muslim people.
That’s a pretty dumb mission.
Root out and destroy the WMD every intelligence service in the world said was there
to build a western trained military where officers were trained to be under civilian control and respect civilians (a rarity in the world much less arab world
to rebuild the economy to provide for daily comforts for the common people (water, sewers, electricity, phone service, health system, schools) and allow for development of capitalism to give hope to a rising middle class and reduce the hopelessness and poverty used by the imams to radicalize the young
the noble idea was to get rid of a hellhole of tyrannical hopelessness that was only going to breed generations of envy hate and resentment of the west - root causes of terrorism that led to 911
and oh yeah, keep a 2 front strategic battle going to keep them fighting our military over there, not coming after our civilians here- like they are now
yeah, that Bush, what a fool to come up with such a plan.
The alternative solution you would propose to end terrorism roots?
Keep troops abroad for generations?
Stay home and try to stop them at our borders (where we are now, but we are not guarding borders, we are trying to guard every US domestic military base, school, aircraft, railway station, mall etc etc etc- because now they are here inside America, not on a battleground in Iraq and Afghanistan)
Kill everyone?
How DO you end the cycle of arab/muslim hatred and attacks against western civilization?