I may be missing the finer nuances of a game plan just outside my intellectual grasp, but where ‘we’ get stuck in to smash an evil regime to liberate and democratise people (Iraq, Afghanistan etc.), once we’ve left or even before mostly, the country is riven with internecine killing, virtual or real civil war, a generally almost totally destroyed infrastructure, no viable government, not to mention severely damaged economy and widespread poverty.
Where ‘we’ don’t get stuck in to smash an evil regime to liberate and democratise people (Syria), the country is riven with internecine killing, virtual or real civil war, a generally almost totally destroyed infrastructure, no viable government, not to mention severely damaged economy and widespread poverty.
Surely the similarities are accidental.