Post Mortem

Saddam Hussein "was courteous, as he always had been, to his U.S. military police guards," Maj. Gen. William B. Caldwell said. " As the storm over the handling of the hanging gained strength, Caldwell was among several U.S. officials who suggested displeasure with the conduct of the execution.
"If you are asking me: 'Would we have done things differently?' Yes, we would have.
Had Washington in Post -WWII done differently these would have happened:
1.
Cold War would have ended by itself.
Soviets would not have been able to hold on under the weight of its personality cult; Gorbachev did call for more openeness because he had no other alternative. A catastrophic event like Chernobyl showed the USSR had to update its technology and let in expertise from outside; Its ageing submarines around the Baltic and the North Sea for example. Dwindling population already decimated by WWII and under repression.
2. Osama bin Laden would have been the founder
of a chain of companies: or directing his own construction company from one of the Saudi office blocks spending his time with with his team setting new goals for branching out into different parts of UAE. Name of the company: Al Queida Construction Co.,
3. Saddam Hussein would have moved from being one of those street- smart hoodlums into the the service of some ageing Sheik. Or he would have continued in Egypt, sucking upto rich tourists coming in to visit the pyramids.
4. As for Iraq the British interests were already on the wane. America would have had greater role to play in the Middlle East. So many deaths on the sides of Iraq,Iran and of US Marines would have been spared.
This is terrible, I mean to rewrite history. Man being such a pathetic specimen whose forte is in making mistakes all along and then wondering what might have been I shall stop forthwith.
You see I am criticizing my own.
benny