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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: one_less who wrote (145289)9/10/2004 12:20:37 PM
From: GST  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
The first and most basic freedom is the freedom from foreign domination. We did not bomb the Vietnamese into freedom -- they wanted a unified country and we merely delayed the process and killed millions of people along the way. Now that we have removed the only thing keeping Iraq together -- a brutal dictator -- Iraq is on its way to series of bloody and complex adjustments. Not the ones we want, but adjustments that flow from our decisions. As Iraq disintegrates, its neighbors will become increasingly active in shaping or fighting the emerging order -- a fierce and protracted border war with Turkey, the rising regional and nuclear power of Iran, the disintegration of Saudi Arabia into civil war and ultimately into a hard-core Islamic State, and the wild card of Pakistan, bristling with nulcear weapons and capability to proliferate. And you will be bleating on about how wonderful America is, and talking about those bad people over there who don't want to be free, and about how lucky they are that we invaded their country and stuck around to build military bases to continue the killing and expand our "love" of freedom throughout the region. And they will be fighting for freedom against us as they see it -- and they will be dying for their vision of freedom. By the time the killing is done, you will be gone and the "mass graves" of Saddam will be footnote in a generation that has known nothing but endless war -- a forest fire that we started but could not even conceive of in terms of its eventual destructive power.
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