Talk:Jafar/@comment-5321503-20120723061106

Jafar should have won. Agrabah was falling apart under the Sultan, and Jafar would have been able to employ the same absolutist methods that Catherine II of Russia used to modernize the country. Because of Jafar's vanity and thirst for wealth, he would have done great things to make trade flourish, helping to solve the obvious unemployment and theft problems that Agrabah was facing after years of the Sultan's laissez faire leadership. Furthermore, the next in line for power in Agrabah at the time of Jafar's initial coup d'état was Jasmine. Because of the economic and social climate, it can be assumed that Agrabah needed external assistance, the sort that was traditionally achieved through the union of two nations through marriage. Rather than doing was is best for her country, Jasmine puts her own desires first and turns down every suitor who comes calling. While her intentions are pure, she clearly does not consider the concequences of her actions, not unlike Bastian in The Neverending Story. While she would have more than likely made attempts to lower the number of impoverished people in Agrabah, she would have more than likely done so at the expense of the taxpayer, as demonstrated when she gave an apple to a poor boy without paying for it. While this is clearly a mistake that she learned from, the fact that she had no intention to pay for the apple is clear, revealing a troubling lack of understanding of basic economic principle. Jafar should have won.