Brook is very good here, but I will accuse him of making an error.
The error is that he mistakes saddam hussein for a rational or semi-rational actor.
He constantly did things that were self-destructive, including a failure to sufficiently comply with WMD rules for decades, for invading kuwait, etc etc etc...
He was paranoid and a megalomaniac, beyond deterance by even simple threats.
he was uncontainable. war with him was unaviodable.
Oil was a factor. As essential as Bush's altruistism. The goal was to knock the Iraq-EU oil nexus out of competition with the Saudi Arabia-US oil nexus.
Brook is very good here, but I will accuse him of making an error.
The error is that he mistakes saddam hussein for a rational or semi-rational actor.
He constantly did things that were self-destructive, including a failure to sufficiently comply with WMD rules for decades, for invading kuwait, etc etc etc...
He was paranoid and a megalomaniac, beyond deterance by even simple threats.
he was uncontainable. war with him was unaviodable.
richardcadbury 2 years ago
Oil was a factor. As essential as Bush's altruistism. The goal was to knock the Iraq-EU oil nexus out of competition with the Saudi Arabia-US oil nexus.
topothemorningtoya 2 years ago
Who did the translation work here? Thanks for this! :-)
qtronman 2 years ago