Quote Originally Posted by R.D.735 View Post
We should not mistake recovery for improvement. The world will become a better place, certainly, but it will not be because hundreds of thousands of innocent people were killed or because terrorist groups were given the greatest recruiting tool they have ever known. It won't be a better place because the status of the U.S. as a powerful broker of peace was thrown out the window. If and when Iraq becomes a great and wealthy nation, it will not be because of the war, but because Iraq's future generations will grow up in a society that has recovered from the devastation.

There is a reason war is the last resort: because it is never beneficial. It is always the least-worst option, an act of desperation. In order to achieve peace, it is necessary to seek alternatives to war, not to fantasize that war can right wrongs and create peace.
No, it will not be because of those things. It will be because of the reasons I have stated. And we are not going to end up with hundreds of thousands of dead innocents. We are going to end up with hundreds of thousands of dead terrorists and at least two dead terrorist governments.