Since the airing of that hanging video it seems like a civil war is more likely now in Iraq. But considering all the civil wars in history, would it really be a bad thing if they just duked it out and got it out of their system?
If it wasn't in that region....perhaps (yes) in a very amoral manner. But since it's in that region, we're involving a lot more people, and it would be a lot more dangerous.
Would you consider the American Civil War a good thing? Or would we have been better off keeping two seperate groups of states? A ridiculous amount of people died in that war but at the end of it I think the entire country realized we'd be better off getting along with each other.
Wooo...that's a hard-one. I love reading into that war. Jeez, I don't think the alternatives in that are something I would like to deal with. Lincoln could deal with it, but I would fold massively. The negative attribute could have been: America being two states, and perhaps more.....leading to a very European-like enviroment. Wars would probably be fought often...mostly over the western land. Positive: I'd say given a president replaced Lincoln and he was good to southern interests (unlikely), they could have reunited... I'd say in the long-run, Lincoln probably did the best thing...but on a moral level....my heart says what he did was incredibly wrong. He did want the war, and he got what he wanted. We were sort of destine for that (once our founders decided to ignore the slave issue),... as our countries interests were too far apart. Iraq's different. I don't think it's remotely as bad as the American civil war. Although if we just left it, it could get really dirty. The Saudi's would probably start proxy wars...then started developing nukes. Iran would quickly finish and nuke the Sunni's, jews, and our soldiers if they get a chance. Resources would be in a stranglehold on Europe and America. The world economy would plummet. Internal conflicts would arise due to these changes. Atleast that's what I see. I wish the Iraq war didn't happen like it did. We should have waited longer...jmo.