I agree, that the U.S. supports regimes that are not democratic. However, what would you have us do? Fight every regime in the Middle East at once?
Things take time. Bush declared a new U.S. policy with the aim of spreading democracy in the Middle East. For despotic countries like Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, that aren't directly threatening U.S. citizens, the U.S. has a policy of exerting diplomatic pressure to get them to reform. It's a very slow process, but I'm a very big advocate of that over war with them.
For countries who directly threaten us like Iraq, Iran, or North Korea, war is a very real possibility.
Again, if those Muslims in the Middle East were really sincere about their policy of hating the U.S. for supporting the despots in the Middle East who oppress them, then we'd see more terrorist attacks against those despots. Instead, all we see is attacks against the U.S. So I just don't believe that the true agenda of these Muslims is that they just want the U.S. out of Arab lands and they want to live in peace and freedom in democracies. If they really wanted that, then they'd be using all their power to topple the Muslim despots who oppress them.
So my conclusion is that either Muslims are stupid and are easily distracted from what they really want or they simply don't want peace. Because if they did, with the power they are wielding against the U.S. in Iraq and Afghanistan, they could have already toppled the Saudi King. |
