From: Dehede011@aol.com
Date: Mon Mar 24 2003 - 10:08:47 MST
In a message dated 3/24/2003 8:39:41 AM Central Standard Time,
steve365@btinternet.com writes: OTOH, if the US adopts a minimal approach of
removing WMDs and the Baathists, replacing them with clients (a Hashemite
King perhaps?) and then withdrawing most of it's military presence, and
doesn't try to actually administer or set policy for post Saddam Iraq, them
Empire has got the thumbs down.
Steve,
I believe there is a very good argument for the US to do exactly what
you have outlined. I am informed by the media that Iraq has or can have
sufficient oil revenue to finance their own rebuilding. Therefore at a time
when the US has its own economic problems that would be one less expense for
the Americans. Second if the Iraqi can be led, pushed, cajoled or forced to
devise a system of government in the hands of citizens they choose the US
avoids another set of problems.
What can the Americans get out of this of positive value? If the
Iraqi become a new source of oil at the market for the Americans then the
Americans avoid some potential problems in their continuing war on the
terrorists. In short the Americans could walk away as liberators and still
have gotten a deal that worked to their future advantage.
This is what President Bush has talked about as his goals -- we will
see.
Ron h.
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