Reply #43: This was an optional and engineered war.

[PurgedVoter]

I think the Professor is entirely justified in his evaluation.
This was not a war that was considered wise by the military leadership of the U.S. After enough generals were moved, marginalized and retired, the war was started. Our military leaders still held that the personnel needed to hold, police and maintain after the attack was MUCH larger than what was allocated.

The reason we attacked in the way that we did was because there was a PNAC theory that we could, with our superior positioning, maintain several wars across the world and keep the world under our control.

After the PNAC military theories were totally disproved, our administration continued in error. Apart from war profiteering, no one has gained from this war. This is a war that should have and could have been stopped at any point.

If you examine the goals of PNAC it becomes clear that this was intended to literally take over the world. This was intended to be the start of WW4, with assured victory by a small group of extreme wealth. It has become an example of daily continuation of error. The costs of this war continue in ways not apparent unless you put the pieces together. We have lost our technological, financial, and military lead. We have lost trust and goodwill. We have lost justice, dignity, and faith. Each day we continue we give more money to forces that cannot but cause us grief in the future. Mercenaries, terrorists, dictators, and radicals will all inevitably cause us more and more grief in future years.