Be nice if Iraq would buy from us. We spent hundreds of billions to rid them of Sadaam; and left billions in equipment there (which they mostly squandered).
I figure they owe us a few billion...
I have always wondered, looking at what Iraq is now, whether if Iraqis had an opportunity to re-do things if they would have wanted for Saddam to be removed? Knowing what they know now. Same thing for Libya who protested in the streets for Gaddafi to be removed, and for that matter those in Syria who wanted Assad out five years ago during the Arab Spring. Maybe Libya and Syria are better examples than Iraq, since in those two countries the genesis was a revolt by the people while in Iraq it was a military response to Saddam being a threat. So, it’s probably cleaner if I focus on Libya and Syria, but looking at the utter mess that those countries are in today, I wonder if - with hindsight - citizens there would have wanted ‘liberation’ from their respective despots knowing that those strong men would simply be replaced by internal schism, civil war and ISIS.
Correction...a few trillion, with a T...