Iraq - The End game

[sasguru]

You are really good at the irony thing!

Prosperous democratic countries of the world agreeing an equitable share of resources. Sounds like a title for a Borat movie.

As atw says. Free market. We buy oil that we need, they build useless buildings with gold taps. Everone's happy

[shaunbhoy]

So what you're saying is that we should have used our knowledge of Mein Kampf to formulate a police of appeasement with Hitler in the expectation that he would ultimately invade Russia, fight himself to a standstill, and then we could clean up?

I suggest you keep your day job. And perhaps you could hire some of our current policy makers.

No, yet again you pick up the strands of reasoned logic and contort them into the ball of spaghetti that defines yours. What I am saying is that we should have been able to see the writing on the wall and prepare for conflict a bit more expeditiously than we did. We should also have kept our cards a bit closer to our chests than we did with good old Neville Chamberlain, and given the job of PM to Winston a lot sooner.

[shaunbhoy]

Because it is free market - if it not equitable enough for you then don't sell at offered price.

No alexei. Do try and keep up. sasguru suggested that in future the countries of the world will have to come to an equitable agreement over sharing resources. My point was "Why"? What is in the national interests of those who have the resources (dwindling ones I might add!) to equitably share them with those who don't? Assuming of course that we expect all sovereign governments to act in their own best interest.

By the way, gotta go now............be back tomorrow to continue the fun!!

C Ya

[zathras]

Like YOU would know!!

No he was correct. It was nonsense.

We should never have gone in. the evidence used was woeful and propped up by lies and hafl-truths. We have turned Iraq into a cause celebre for every extreme nutter out there.

Then we compounded the problems by creating a large disenfranchised group in Iraq and not having a proper plan on how to run the country afterwards. A vacuum was created which has been filled by the so called insurgents.

Having bombed the country virtually into destruction we have a moral duty to stay and deal with the problems our actions have caused.

And to compound that failure we also left the job half done in Afghanistan; meaning that having overthrown the Taliban they are busy fighting the coalition (did we learn nothing from the Russian failure and the UK's own failure in that country). Fuirther it is producing far more heroin now than under the Taliban, thus leading to social problems here as heroin becomes cheaper.