Foreign Wars – Iraq

I was recently watching one of my favorite shows on TV Build It Bigger when I saw the results of decisions made by the USA leadership over the past 10 years or so. It was a show about Al Hamra Tower in Kuwait in the middle east. The neighbor of Iraq. The Al Hamra Tower just also happens to be designed by a US architecture firm also. Who designed the building is not the point and neither that it was a US company. The fact of the matter, at the time of air of this show the Al Hamra Tower was and still to this day (to my knowledge) the Tallest “Twisting” Structure on Earth.

Kuwait in 2010 has estimated approximately 3,500,000 people living there, about 1,500,000 citizens.

In 1990 Iraq invaded and Occupied Kuwait until US Forces ran them out of the country.

Now that Saddam Hussein is gone, in the past 5 years, over 55 “high rise” towers have been built.

The previous fears of invasion are no longer there and the people have prospered. The businesses foreign and domestic to Kuwait have prospered. No fear that someone was going to just walk right back into the country and take what people had worked hard to build, create and invest in. They are free of Fear, Terror, Oppression. And where freedom rings the people have prospered. Now I don’t know on the state level how relatively “free” the citizens of Kuwait are compared to US Citizens. However they sure are living with less fear of the old Iraq invading, killing and destroying.

A lot of people argue about the decisions made by the US to stabilize a region, and at what cost. The costs of American lives paid for foreign people. I would venture to guess that the people of Kuwait know and will remember why they enjoy the freedom from oppression and who helped them get their freedom. I know the same people that say they were “worthless wars”, and can number countless reasons on why the US shouldent have gone. And give theories on why why we went like Oil. I think in the long run the value of human lives and peace to a region will far out way and out last oil.