Originally Posted by
psycho joe
Only to the extent that they were buoyed by popular uprising in the Middle East and a power vacuum. Whereas in the past the likes of Saddam would have put down such a threat to his power with matching levels of atrocity.
It's a bit like blaming the allies for the rise of Nazism, by removing the Wilhelm aristocracy (dictatorship) and instilling the Weimar Republic.
Read my above response. But I'll add that the collective punishment of the germans at the end of round 1 generated the instability that eventually led to round 2.
Notice the americans played differently with the Germans and japanese afterwards and look at em now
quite the success story