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Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
There's a lot of human misery in Haiti --- should we embark on nation building there, too? Conservatives usually say "no."
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The decision to invade Iraq was mulitfactoral. It was not just because of the WMD, which is why not finding the WMDs doesn't mean anything. It was not just because of the human suffering in Iraq, which is why your Haiti analogy sucks air.
Another reason to invade Iraq was that Iraq funded terrorist activities, including Palestinian and other Islamic terrorist groups, which made Iraq a destabilizing force in the Middle East. Another reason to invade Iraq was because if a democracy is successfully installed, this will help to accelerate positive change in the Middle East and eventually help to stabilize the region, both politically and economically. And a stable Middle East is in the US's best interest.
Now invading Syria and installing a democracy might have similar positive effects on the Middle East. But Syria would not be the cakewalk that Iraq was. The people of Syria don't hate their ruling regime the way SH was hated.
All these factors, as well as others, made Iraq, and not Haiti, the right country to invade and to effectuate regime change.
