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But it has worked for decade after decade after decade. It doesn't work perefectly but it still works.

For whom has it worked? For the elites in power who derive the benefits from being close to those in power and therefore lucrative business contracts? Or perhaps the multinational corporations that get their bacon pulled out of the fire at taxpayer expense?

Or maybe the 250 dead soldiers in Lebanon was what you were talking about? That worked too eh? Perhaps you meant the hundreds of dead in the embassy bombings. More examples of the practice working?

Oh I know....it's the 500,000 dead in Iraq. That worked. Though I doubt if you'd find many Iraqi's who'd share your almost religious belief in how well everything is "working."

Oh I know....it's the 500,000 dead in Iraq. That worked.

War is hell. Concerning those killed *after* the Iraqi intervention, you should directing this to OP, since these deaths would not be the result of economic aid and military intervention but its exact opposite.

Or maybe the 250 dead soldiers in Lebanon was what you were talking about? That worked too eh? Perhaps you meant the hundreds of dead in the embassy bombings. More examples of the practice working?

Read the previous posts to try and make sense of what we have been talking about. All you are doing is listing examples of poor policy making, and I probably would agree with you.