BF2S Forums The Neverending Story: Pakistan kills 80 in the Border near Afghanista

Turquoise wrote:

sergeriver wrote:

Turquoise wrote:

I'll admit, I'm not a very compassionate person when it comes to foreign policy.  Machiavelli and Vlad Tepes seem to be the best guides in dealing with the Middle East, since the majority of the region is so volatile.  Iraq is essentially the Transylvania of the Middle East, and it will likely take another Saddam to keep things in order.

The only other option is to split the country into 3 parts based on ethnicity.  For whatever reason, the American government has proven resistant to this idea.

Because then you'll have 3 countries to invade for oil, now you only have one.

Well, I think this Iraq thing has been more about the military industrial complex than oil.  Refineries are getting attacked and contractors for oil companies are getting killed, so if this was done for oil, it's even a bigger failure than is already apparent.