Diplomacy vs Military with regards to the mid east.

The painfully Obvious: Military intervention as a primary tool in the Mid East results in world stage embarassment as collateral damage is paraded about. https://collateralmurder.wikileaks.org...For those not familiar with the video “Collateral Murder”, or those of constitution not suitable for viewing graphic material, military policy enabled an allied gunship to dispatch potential insurgents, which is good… and their entrenched obviously unarmed journalists which is bad. To complicate things, this attack from an Allied Apache was conducted in an suburb, literally some one’s back yard. As traffic progressed down the road, good Samaritans, not knowing what had just transpired saw bloodied rubble and wounded people scattered about the through-way. During their attempts to lend aid, and evacuate people to medical assistance… they too were attacked, resulting in the deaths of more civilians. The icing on this military cake was the passenger door of a van taking a hail of 30mm armor peircing rounds where 2 children took head and stomach shots. All Hail the Conquering Heros:Military justice as invoked by pro infers that you as the aggressor are the one delivering justice, that might makes right. When such a blunder yields no positive results…• “We know where they [Iraq's WMD] are. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south, and north somewhat....I would also add, we saw from the air that there were dozens of trucks that went into that facility after the existence of it became public in the press and they moved things out. They dispersed them and took them away. So there may be nothing left. I don't know that. But it's way too soon to know. The exploitation is just starting. o Interview with George Stephanopoulos on ABC News This Week, March 30, 2003(no significant WMD development was found in those areas) And if your pretexts for Mid East Policy was never diplomacy, but orchestration for invasion, you get gaffes like this: Asked about the sanctions placed on Iraq, which were then under review at the Security Council, Powell said the measures were working. In fact, he added, "(Saddam Hussein) has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbors."To two years later stating:On Feb. 5, 2003, Powell told the United Nations Security Council: "The gravity of this moment is matched by the gravity of the threat that Iraq's weapons of mass destruction pose to the world. Let me now turn to those deadly weapons programs and describe why they are real and present dangers to the region and to the world.".Blood and Treasure: As you can see, post 9/11 diplomacy was abandon, and military justice was served. 15 years later, military justice is still being served with the 6,852 US soldiers killed in the “War on Terror”, and the five trillion, trillion with a “T” spent from the American tax payer. That is a rather signifigant portion of the world market, should anyone be curious.http://www.pbs.org... Wait, what are we doing, again?: Now that we have invaded and engaged in those military policies in the Mid East for nearly 2 years, what have we gained? Fortunately, the evidence of my position is present every day on the news. Our military firmly entrenched itself in the Mid East and the results are plain. I leave it to the voting populace to determine with the lives, trillions, and gains of said are worth leveraging off against the time and stalemates that diplomacy might form.Now, this part is not to be used as an argument, it is merely a suggestion for readership to explore:Iraq's invasion of Kuwait was made after unresolved allegations of slant drilling (Kuwait taking Iraqi oil field's supply via underhanded technique). That variety of shenannigans would get ya shot in Texas, I can imagine a dictator being any more pleased at the situation, especially with regards to Iraqi oil already being priced out of the market at the time.