Capitol Hill Blue Forums Political Issues Foreign Policy & News "Unintended Consequences of Military Intervention"

Zeke
There is a fundamental problem with what you are saying.

This thread exhaustively considered whether the outcome of a war can be well predicted. And we all decided that the vagaries of war make it impossible to predict the outcome and consequences.

If you cannot predict the outcome, then you also cannot predict who will ulitmately benefit.

And if no special interest really knows whether they will benefit from the outcome of a war, then it is hard to link up a causual connection that these special interests manipulated politians to start the war. The pattern of "causuality" which you assert is really only clear in restrospect when the outcome and who actually did benifit is known.

And, since the american economy has greatly expanded in that last 60+ years, then the pattern is clear: American commercial enterprise must be at the root of alll of the wars of the last 60 years since it is they who have benefitted.