Why does Robert George hate America so much?
Following up on Deroy's great column Saudi Arabia on the site today, isn't it about time to turn conventional wisdom on its head? The CW of the last eleven years is that that Bush "41" made a serious mistake by not going onto Baghdad and taking Saddam out. Now even liberals who opposed the Gulf War parrot this line. Maybe everyone was/is wrong. Perhaps Bush 41's biggest mistake was in stopping Saddam from annexing Kuwait and, subsequently, Saudi Arabia. After all, who kept a radical Islamic state (Iran) in check during the '80s? Saddam. Do we really believe that Saddam in control of the Saudi oil fields would be harder to deal with than the current crew? Saddam is in it for regional power. As far as we can tell, he's not interested in launching an ideological Islamist crusade around the world -- unlike the people that the House of Saud are funding. Hmmm....
I have always wondered what changed between the time April Glaspie said "go for it, good buddy Saddam" and our decision that Saddam was The New Great Satan.
