The war in Iraq, as everyone knows, failed to find weapons of mass destruction. But the end result has been the same as if it had. That is, it eliminated the threat of such weapons. This was a threat that depended not on the actual existence of these weapons, but rather on the belief in their existence and in Saddam Hussein’s willingness to use them or make them available to terrorists.
If we had not gone into Iraq, this belief would still exist. Saddam would certainly have used it both to maintain his own position and to intimidate his neighbors in his efforts to dominate the Middle East and its oil. The world would still be coping with this threat, and America’s foreign policy would be geared to containing it. We still face many threats to our national security, but at least this one (and the one from Libya) is now a thing of the past, thanks to the war.
Clark McKee
Monroe
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