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I'm saying it wouldn't have been politically feasible to stop there.
Also, after skimming that link I'll grant you that there were financial concerns at play, but I think you're oversimplifying. You show a clear fondness for reducing complex sociopolitical phenomena to simple financial concerns. I recognize that this is pleasing to the cynic, but there's always more to it than that.
Bernays pioneered modern propoganda. Goebbels learned from the US's guy. Politically feasible is whatever the spin wants it to be.
There really is nothing more than financial concerns at play at the top. War is just like anything else:
“A person usually has two reasons for doing something:
a good reason and the real reason.”
– Thomas Carlyle