The Hon. John Ruddick
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But if we'd had a three-month pause where we say, look, we can't make any decisions.
Let's talk about what's the right thing to do here.
That would have been better.
It was brutal and he was a baddie, but he was probably, look, it was a lot better having Saddam there and basically keeping it under control and, you know.
Atrocities happened, but a hell of a lot more atrocities happened when ISIS took over.
And the canary in the coal mine with these Middle Eastern countries is the poor little Christian minorities.
And they're very nice people, those Middle Eastern Christians from Syria and Iraq and these places, Egypt.
Lebanon.
Yeah, they're just really lovely people.
And they basically lived there for a long, long time, generally reasonably pretty happy.
But then these regime wars came in, and the Christians lose big time.
There used to be about 5% to 10% of Iraq was Christian.
I think it's down to about 1% or 2% now.
But I've got a question for you, Sam, because you've been to Afghanistan.
I haven't, but I've been following it from the beginning.
This is what the libertarian answer is to what should we have done after 9-11.
Again, I'd be keen to hear what you think, because from my point of view, it's just sort of like theory, but for you, you've lived it.
So what we would have said is, okay, so let's say 9-11's happened.
Now, we knew pretty much straight away that Osama was involved, and we knew pretty much straight away that Osama had been in outback Afghanistan for, I think, about three years or something.
He was sort of there.
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