Do you really believe that if we stopped "interfering" in the region that Saddam would suddenly become a different person? The guy is whacked !! And he'll continue to believe what he does about himself and what he can do whether the US "interferes" or not. Would he suddenly stop oppressing his own people if "WE" do something differently? I think not.
Yes, and we'd then care because....why?
I was just saying, if we stopped interfering, his lunacy would not be directed at us, hence, no longer our problem. We are not the world's policemen, nor should be.
I may sympathize with those of his own people he'd oppress, but I don't see this as anyone else's problem - AS LONG AS IT DOESN'T SPREAD. In a hypothetical situation in which there is no money in the middle east, they could buy no weapons, and the problem would NOT spread.
Dictatorships only exist as long as the flow of money in a region is easy to control. If Iraq lost the 'easy out' of oil, they'd have to initiate significant agricultural reform, build factories to actually produce GOODS instead of simply exporting oil, educate their population better, etc. - they'd need to diversify their source of income or collapse into third world poverty. Once that happens.....
There are no, nor have ever been, any industrial nations that have been able to maintain a dictatorship for more than a century, tops. Even the mighty Soviet Union only managed 80 years. There is a reason for that....
If you could FORCE Iraq/Iran/Saudi Arabia/etc to industrialize instead of simply taking money for outsiders drilling holes in their land....
