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Quite true, but the idea is to destabilize the entire region, not bring it up to 1st world democratic status like America. It's a gamble and nobody knows how it's going to play out in the end. Russia probably enjoys the possibility of us bankrupting ourselves in the Middle East.
I do not think that Iraq is in any way comparable to the Westernization of Japan. The Middle East is starkly different in religious and cultural norms, multi-ethnic composition, and history.
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