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Originally posted by Secret_Agent_Man
I understood the basic point you were making, but (since I did not see Coltrane's premise the same way you did) did not see its pertinence.
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So I went back, to make sure that I hadn't misread his point. He said, to start, "I'm not sure if this benefit outweighs the embarrassment of an entire country. The Iraqi people right now feel humiliated. I would as well if I was being treated like a savage child. I'd be fucking irate if I had a job pre-Saddam and am now unemployed."
I take that to mean, he's not sure that the benefit of being liberated makes up for the humiliation, one factor of which is the jump in unemployment. So, I stand by my interpretation. He wasn't just saying, yay for the war, now let's fix things faster.
