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Originally Posted by Memnoch A friend of mine from Pakistan has a different view. Here are his thoughts: Comments?

It's always good to get a different perspective on the "goals" of the war, especially from someone who lives in the Middle East.

Can't really argue with his logic or conclusions....they make a lot of sense. Getting rid of Saddam Hussein may have been the public rallying cry, but it was obviously only a minor objective overall and one that could have been achieved through much cheaper means (as mentioned earlier).

The only "goal" I question at all is the deliberate destruction of the education infrastructure to deny Iraq future scientists and engineers. Then again, considering that some of their scientists and engineers were major targets as well due to their work on developing biological weapons, it is once again hard to deny the logic that destroying the ability for Iraq to educate future scientists and engineers was also one of the primary goals of the war.

From a U.S. perspective, that would be a good strategy; capture or kill the existing scientists and engineers working on high-tech weapons and destroy the infrastructure to educate future scientists and engineers to replace them. It would be the modern technology equivalent of killing the rival tribal leader AND all of his children.

Overall, I would say your friend is pretty accurate in his conclusions.