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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: paul_philp who wrote (67121)1/20/2003 12:20:37 AM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 

America is the last best hope for the Arab world... America is offering a message of hope to a region largely lacking in hope. The American people will respond if they are told what their mission is.

If America is the last hope of the Arab world, the Arab world has no hope. America can remove Saddam. America can sponsor a new Constitution for Iraqis. But America can't create real, functioning democracy in Iraq, or anywhere else in the Arab world. Only the Arabs can do that.

The mission that the American people have responded to is the maintenance of their own security. Americans want Saddam removed and his WMD programs dismantled. They want this because they have been told that Saddam and these programs are a terrible and imminent threat to the US. I don't think Americans will respond to the mission if the mission is to modernize the Arab world, because Americans know very well that this mission is beyond the limits of American power. Armies can remove governments. They aren't much good at creating new ones.
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