crackerjack
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"In either case some sort of moral responsibility does lie with the people who made the decisions that caused this to happen doesn't it?"
No question. But the primary responsibility must lie with those doing the killing, otherwise you wind up with a thesis that makes excuses for murderers and an inverted racism that holds people in foreign countries to be incapable of individual agency.
"I still think things could have worked out much better if they/we'd had an idea of what they/we were going to do once Saddam was deposed)."
They did have an idea. Chalabi told them some fairytales and they chose to believe them.
No question. But the primary responsibility must lie with those doing the killing, otherwise you wind up with a thesis that makes excuses for murderers and an inverted racism that holds people in foreign countries to be incapable of individual agency.
"I still think things could have worked out much better if they/we'd had an idea of what they/we were going to do once Saddam was deposed)."
They did have an idea. Chalabi told them some fairytales and they chose to believe them.