Why don't you just quit with the pointless character attacks and explain how you were so wrong about what an easy occupation this was going to be.
Hmm, I don't EVER recall saying the occupation was going to be easy.
They never are when you have so many rival interests vying to dominate the others.
I just find it simply amazing that you believe the advocation of democratic principles around the world are not worth fighting (and if necessary, dying) for...
You're world is cowardly... Claiming to profess democratic principles, but being utterly unwilling to fight for them (at least until you are forced to do so from your very doorstep).
Do you really think muslims can't deal with democracy? Do you think it's not worth our blood to help them to achieve this by providing the kind of "muscle" that is required to quash those who have no interest in seeing a democracy there?
Even the American revolutionaries could not have beaten England, had it not been for the convenient (and self-interested) support of the French.. It requires a patron, and in the case of Iraq, a mentor, who can provide the kind of environment where a progressive society can take root. A society where political violence is not tolerated, and where people and interest groups carry out their agenda through a legal and political process.
It took the US a good 100 years to hash out it's democratic structure. And that's because we didn't have many precedents to operate from other Greece and Rome.. And a lot of blood was shed along the way..
It will likely be the same in the Mid-East. But it's vital that we be engaged in, and assist, this transformation in the region..
And why? Because Islamist militancy it spawning from the lack of hope prevalent in these authocratic regimes. It is being driven by the belief that the US, in the interest of regional "stability" is sheltering these regimes from real political change.
And it's time for that belief to be erased from the minds of the Arab street.
And that's going to require the shedding of American blood, possibly even my own one day..
Because if plans play out right, I'll be over there within the month for a couple of years...
(and that's all I'll say about that)..
Hawk |
