Iraq and Saddam’s removal served to destabilize the ME. Now look what we have, more chaos than before. You can’t bring democracy to those who don’t want it.
“Iraq and Saddam’s removal served to destabilize the ME.”
You left out a few things: The Iran/Iraq war, the invasion of Kuwait, Saddam’s apparent involvement in the first Trade Center bombing. Doesn’t seem like a real stable part of the world to be disengaged from if they are threatening us. Saddam was Bush 1s problem, but the electorate kicked him out before he was able to clear it up. Clinton refused to do anything and fostered conditions for 9-11.
You are right on the democracy thing. A bad sign was the very limited obvious popular support of Iraqis for the defeat of Saddam. living under a tyrant who thought he was the reincarnation of Stalin and Hitler probably didn’t help.