re: #313 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN

I’m not going to praise Hussein, but while he was in power Iran had a legitimate rival in the Middle East.

I once classified Saddam as a “load-bearing dictator” and I stand by that. So much of the problems we face today in the Middle East are because we recklessly knocked him out of power without a concrete plan to deal with the fallout. Then we doubled down on our error by running everybody with even a modicum of understanding of how politics worked in Iraq out of power, so that the only ones left were either inept, corrupt, or both.