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Old 27th Aug 2014, 23:29
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but I do not support this intervention. Let the Gulf States do it.
Regardless of your support for or against the Iraqi intervention in the first place, the words, we help create the situation we help fix it comes to mind.

I'm firmly in the position that Iraqi was doing fine till we pulled out. That said we helped them create the fledgling democracy and army not yet capable of defending themselves.

Combine that with the politics of withdrawing, then we have a hand in it. The gulf states are nowhere near strong enogh to deal with the situation by themselves without potentially becoming unstable themselves.

All those states can be considered metastable systems.
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