More than likely the invasion of Iraq was avoidable.
https://www.vox.com/2016/2/16/11022104/iraq-war-neoconservatives But to blame all the islamic terrorist attacks throughout the world on that single episode is pure unadulterated fantasy.
The Islamic violence is part and parcel of this backward, vile supremacist ideology.
I also think it was unavoidable. The Baath party is literally Arabic national socialism. It's exactly the same kind of political party as the Nazis and Saddam was strikingly similar to Hitler. Complete with ethnic cleaning of Kurds. The problem with national socialism is that it's fundamentally utopian, and when things... inevitably... turn out less than ideal... they've got to find scapegoats. That's when starting wars come in handy. National socialism is an ideological war machine that feeds itself. He'd just have kept going if left alone. I also think that getting rid of him was unavoidable.
Yes, it's a shame that USA dropped the ball and mismanaged the occupation. I still say it would have been worse not to invade at all. You've got to break some eggs to make an omelette.
I'm not a nationalist. I think all of humanity have a shared responsibility to help those in need. Violently if necessary. If a country is a dictatorship, that's a free pass for any democratic nation to invade, at any time. If the goal is to make it democratic. Just my opinion.
