The Iraq War retrospective Thread

[Thecla]

I'd rather be China's pit bull, than their mutton dinner.

You certainly do seem to have an appetite for agression. But rabid pit bulls usually end up getting put down.

I dare say China's leaders are getting a grim sense of satisfaction in building up huge foreign reserves whilst the US impales itself on the middle east.

Clearly the next century is very uncertain (as it always is, I suppose) but energy will be an issue at the heart of it (as Cheney et. al. surely knew when they invaded Iraq). If there turns out to be one event that people point to which triggers the demise of the US and the ascendancy of China (if that's in fact what happens) I suspect it will be the Iraq war.