Iraq is the result of war. War is unpredictable at best and people go into it with that knowledge. Any tactician will tell you that all of the best laid plans are out the window once the enemy is engaged.
Iraq was not the result of war. It was the result of short sighted foreign policy goals that were put in place long before 9/11. It was the result of ideologues who had not grounding in reality. It was the result of people in power who ignored the advice of those who had a better handle on the politics of the middle east and who clearly warned of the consequences of taking out Saddam.
Under the heading of unintended consequences are things like the destruction of the black family via the "compassionate" welfare plans of the 40's and 50's.
Again, unintended consequences are not the sole responsibility of liberals. For example:
- the dust bowl, a result of the wheat boom, land speculation, opening of indian and grazing lands to agriculture, farming methods unsuitable to the plains, the ripping up of the prairie grass which was what held the soil in place during the regular periods of long drought...unintended consequences of rapid expansion of agriculture with no attention paid to the warnings of those who knew better
- unintended consequencs of rapid industrialization leading to toxic levels of lead, mercury and other substances in rivers, fish and soil among other things.
- unintended consequences of huge mega-agricultural complexes leading to run off into the Chesapeake Bay and other areas, altering the ecology, killing off fish and shell fish and affecting the livilihoods of those who depend on it.
and on and on and on.
50 million people dying because of the ban on DDT. Efforts by greens to plant forests to help fix carbon and nitrogen in the soil that were actually ecological disasters when it was learned that the prairie grasses that were turned under to make room for the trees were actually 4 times more efficent at fixing nitrogen and carbon than the forests that replaced them.
The list goes on and on coyote and the vast bulk are the direct result of liberal thinking (or should I say not thinking?).
No, it was not the "vast bulk". Frankly I think you have to blame human nature and cultural short sightedness. We want solutions NOW - immediate - not later. We, as a people, don't think long term. And that is not an issue of liberal vs. conservative.
