There’s an interesting debate going on among Glenn Reynolds, Nick Denton and Dave Winer about the following proposition: “the US needs to destroy Saddam Hussein’s regime mainly because the West needs to humiliate the Arab world, and dispel the Islamic millenial fantasy.”
Doc Searls has the full recap, and a perspective that I find persuasive. …And as Farhad points out in the comments, taking Saddam out doesn’t achieve the goal of humiliating Islamism because Saddam isn’t an Islamist: “If we wanted to crush Islamism, we’d crush Saudi Arabia, not Iraq.”
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