Yes Beagle,
Have to agree on a distinct aggressive stance from most of my cousins out here.
Saddam just flipped the finger at the US once too often. Qaddafi saw the results and turned in for the rest of his life despite the macho rhetoric to save face with some of the people around him, who perceive his rapprochement as weakness.
Iran has lovely people but the clerics ensure it remains a third world toilet, Afghanistan is as under control as it could ever be given the Kalshnikov culture and basic enforced lack of intellect of the male population there. I honestly don't think the Americans are in a mood to give a stuff what anyone else might think about them for the time being. The populations of various countries will remain poverty stricken and/or with their noses pressed up against the window for a long time to come due to their leaders stance and celebration of 9/11.
Problem is our 24 hour media fed culture wants instant results, instant sanitised, bloodless victory in War, instant satisfaction, instant democracy.....
Interestingly, if you look at West Germany, Taiwan and Japan, they all benefited handsomely from American "interference" after the War. Who is to say Iraq might not be a glowing example of democracy and industrial growth too in a couple of decades ?
Luckily, Vickers/ROF never made Tractors
