Excellent article. I believe the Trump/Musk/ Putin gambit to impose a dictatorship on America will fail because we are not used to dictators, or kings for that matter, ruling over us especially cruel ones. Just like Iraq wasn’t used to democracy America is not used to being ruled by dictators. The current Axis of Evil will not succeed.
If you could travel back in time and be elected president of the united states for whatever term you wanted during the 80s or 90s, what would your policy have been toward Iraq? say right before or after Anfal? Or maybe to simplify things, just say any term after the cold war ended. Is there any plausible scenario where Saddam does not suppress all democratic forces in the country? And if not, do you think leaving the country in the hands of Uday and Qusay would have been better for Iraq than what happened?
Excellent article. I believe the Trump/Musk/ Putin gambit to impose a dictatorship on America will fail because we are not used to dictators, or kings for that matter, ruling over us especially cruel ones. Just like Iraq wasn’t used to democracy America is not used to being ruled by dictators. The current Axis of Evil will not succeed.
If you could travel back in time and be elected president of the united states for whatever term you wanted during the 80s or 90s, what would your policy have been toward Iraq? say right before or after Anfal? Or maybe to simplify things, just say any term after the cold war ended. Is there any plausible scenario where Saddam does not suppress all democratic forces in the country? And if not, do you think leaving the country in the hands of Uday and Qusay would have been better for Iraq than what happened?