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Originally Posted by sassysocks
So the rest of the world, who have the means, should not intervene to protect the ordinary people of a country such as Iraq and just let the home grown Iraqi dictators and bully boys terrorise and murder their own. Wouldn't all the bully boys out there just love that. We did not create this mess, the terrorists did.
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So the Iraq war wasn't a mistake? It was a necessary humanitarian intervention with the purest of motives? Sad as it may be there are dozens of countries with dictatorial systems - some of them are our great allies. 'Nations have no permanent friends or enemies, only permanent interests' - look at the way that Gaddafi was alternatively an enemy, then a friend, then an enemy again. Same story with a lot of world leaders. And sad as it may also be a lot of the time these dictators are the only things keeping a lid on melting pots of religious and political tensions just waiting to boil over. Toppling Saddam opened up a power vacuum in Iraq which IS are now filling. Only post invasion did Iraq become such a haven for terrorists. It's the same story in Syria, suddenly we're not so desperate to see Assad removed because we have a common enemy. We used to be expected to cheerlead the death of Syrian soldiers who it was decided were just Assad's dogs massacring his people, not so much anymore.