Shadows of an Empire

We stayed at camp Baharia for a short time, it was actually pretty interesting. It used to be one of Saddam's son's palaces... Of course we destroyed it, now where used to be a nice resort is a very modest, but huge camp. I managed to snag a peice of rubble from the palace so that should make a nice momento of where I've been. It's odd when you think about it I wonder if Saddam, or either of his sons ever had an inkling that we'd come crashing down on them so hard. Makes you wonder if it was the right thing to come crashing down so hard. Not saying that they didn't have it coming, but maybe there could have been a better way to go about it. I mean did we create more violence by doing so? Could we have ended this conflict years ago by taking a second to evaluate a more patient approach? I don't think that what we did was wrong, Saddam was oppressing the Kurds using chemical and biological weapons on them, torturing them. He certainly had a lot to answer for. We've learned a lot about armed conflict and we've certainly come a long way when it comes to resolving conflict in the least bloody manner possible. Just wondering out loud I suppose