The Iraq War and Cosmopolitan Intent

I watched the McLaughlin Group last night. The idea was floated that the whole point of the Iraq War was to destabilize the Middle East so that it could be rebuilt. The gruesomeness of the idea depressed me slightly.

I also reread Kant's Idea for a Universal History with Cosmopolitan Intent with its interesting propositions such as:

Eighth Proposition

The history of mankind could be viewed on the whole as the realization of a hidden plan of nature in order to bring about an internally--and for this purpose also externally--perfect constitution; since this is the only state in which nature can develop all predispositions of mankind.

Kant imagined the enlightenment of humanity would accomplish the goal. Less enlightened methods might be at work than he imagined. Nature sometimes operates by strange and odious methods when implementing its grand design.