Even aside from those concerns, however, what is it that you've seen or read that makes you think that there is any REAL possibility that some form of beneficial democracy could exist in Iraq?
Sorry.. But what you're arguing is that maybe we should install a dictatorship, rather than a democratic system, right??
Because if we're not going to at least offer the Iraqi people the choice of living under a democratic system of government, accountable to the people that elect it, then WHAT FORM OF GOVERNMENT DO YOU DESIRE THAT WE CREATE IN IRAQ???
Is that what we're fighting for? To create dictatorships?
Or is that we attempt to assist people in recognizing their personal freedoms and to develop a sense of inalienable rights to prosperity and happiness (and then demanding that their government govern in such a manner as to facilitate those desires)..
Maybe we run the risk of seeing the people foolishly elect an Islamo-Fascist regime as occurred in Palestine. But at least we will have clarity. We will know that they are militant Jihadists and we can react accordingly, as we're doing in Palestine. And at least we'll know it's no longer worth throwing good money after bad.
And if those people choose to live under Talibanism, and are able to continue electing Islamo-Fascist political representatives in free and fair elections, then that is their choice. And if that choice includes facilitating terrorism or harboring Al Qai'da, they will face the consequences.
What I don't understand is just what you're proposing as an alternative to democratic government??
Maybe I'm being naive, but I think a true display of defeat in Iraq would be our settling for dictatorship, or just letting the country split up. Neither of those choices will resolve the problem of Islamo-Fascism, or ethnic and religious intolerance.
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