[rmlew]

Saddam never was the enemy until Bush-41 dislodged hin from Kuwait. We should have let Iraq & Kuwait fight it out. It matters little who owns the oil wells. They all must sell oil to whoever can buy it. That war was the beginning of all the mess we have now.
If you think that genocidal fascist Pan-Arab Nationalists taking control of world oil and getting nukes would not have been problem, I'm not sure we can debate. Next you are going to extoll the Soviets.

[entropy12]

Listen carefully again with your thinking in focus,
every dictator, fascist Arab leader, will never stop
selling oil in the Arab bazaar. Their lifestyle absolutely requires it. They will literally starve without selling oil. OPEC is no longer the force it was in 1970’s. Plenty
of oil is present in S.America, Canada, Mexico, Norway,
Africa and many other countries, not least of all right
here in USA.

The central theme for creating more Jihadists is presence
of American and other Western soldiers in Arab lands. Bush-41 made a huge blunder getting us involved in Desert storm, which helped grow Al Qaeda leading upto 911. And Bush-43 exacerbated the problem by invading Iraq.

I know how the Arabs think. I grew up in a country right next door to them.

[SunkenCiv]

Well of course — they’re on the same page. :’)