Iraq - Tens Years After

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Originally Posted by piece-itpete

They are two completely different things, no? And I'd argue, considering the cost and material, that their leadership was figurative.

Pete

These wars were different in the sense that unrest and slaughter in Libya, by virtue of its location in north Africa, represented a threat to Europe. Iraq, by contrast, didn't really threaten anybody other than Iran and its desire for regional hegemony, something we greatly enhanced by the war.