You are not free if you fear for your life when you go outside your home.
You're ignoring the fact that Iraqis and Afghanis have been freed from oppressive, unelected, unpopular leaders.
That's true....they have exchanged a tyrant for a tyrannical insurgency. At least Saddam kept the power on. You make finding fifty bodies in the Tigris or 30 bodies stashed in a warehouse or 45 bodies hidden in a car grave yard sound like a minor inconvenience. It is not. People are dying left and right in Iraq........and the US gov't refuses to tell us how many just as they refuse to let us see American guys come home in their coffins. Does that sound like a democracy there or here? Not to me.
Women must carry guns when they go to school at the university to prevent getting raped; barbers are being killed or mutilitated left and right; people are getting kidnapped a regular basis....from kids to foreign adults; the main road to the Baghdad airport, the only commercial airport [sort of] in all of Iraq, is under constant attack....in fact, a airport limosine service charges $32k and gives you a ride in an armored hummer for the trip to the airport; the electricity is on roughly 4-6 hours per day; car bombings occur frequently and randomly seemingly at will; innocent people are killed with some frequency by American troops because they have become trigger happy; billions of dollars are missing and are presumed to have been embezzled.
Now, you must read my lips: this is not democracy; this is anarchy! They are no where near the same thing. Painting your index finger purple does not make you democratic. Anarchy, chaos, evil rule Iraq.....not democracy.
I agree with you that the "insurgent" killers that are terrorizing parts of Iraq and making some of the general public afraid to leave their homes need to be neutralized. That's what those young men lining up to join the Iraqi civil defense force are supposed to do.
Insurgency is what happens when you invade a nation against its will. Its SOP....not some unique and unexpected event.
Furthermore, I don't share your view that the US is the world's liberator.
The US promotes freedom and democracy around the planet, whether you share some particular view or not. Remember that Kennedy quote, "Bear any burden, etc. etc. to promote liberty"?
Promoting freedom and democracy is one thing; violently imposing democracy is another. Peace begets peace; violence begets violence.
Besides, who died and made us king of the world?
The British Empire, and then the Soviet Empire. But I wouldn't use the term King. Too much of an imperialistic tone to the word. You should ask "who died and made us the defender of freedom"? Yeah, that sounds much better...
And where are those empires now? They all died a not so imperial death!
1,2,3,4 we don't want your frigging war! |
