The man was a throwback to a time when war was a natural occupation of political leaders.
Specifically, to the Mesopotamian empire-builders, whom he explicitly admired.
... and by 2001 he had managed, by sheer obstinacy coupled with massive bribery, to reduce the coalition against him to Britain and America alone. If he had been allowed to break the military grip these countries had on him, it is absolutely certain that he would have invaded some other country, probably Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.
Which would have forced us to fight him anyway, because we couldn't have tolerated Saddam Hussein holding most of the world's oil.
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Date: 2007-07-23 03:16 pm (UTC)Specifically, to the Mesopotamian empire-builders, whom he explicitly admired.
... and by 2001 he had managed, by sheer obstinacy coupled with massive bribery, to reduce the coalition against him to Britain and America alone. If he had been allowed to break the military grip these countries had on him, it is absolutely certain that he would have invaded some other country, probably Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.
Which would have forced us to fight him anyway, because we couldn't have tolerated Saddam Hussein holding most of the world's oil.