Hawk, you never even bothered to answer my questions. Instead you say, "Sorry.. But what you're arguing is that maybe we should install a dictatorship, rather than a democratic system, right??
Let's try this again. I asked "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?
Evidently the answer is "not much." Why else would you change the subject from a pragmatic inquiry to some sort of axis of evil choice and ask me whether I thought "we" should install a dictatorship? I will, however, try your issue.
"We" shouldn't install anything in Iraq.
Are you so righteous in your views that you no longer question the assumptions that we have both the right and the ability to choose for them. Where do you get your sense of MORAL IMPERATIVE to choose a system of governance for the Iraqis? What makes you think, after all you've seen, that we have the POWER to choose for them? How many of our young men and women are you willing to send to their deaths to prove you can't push a string?
You don't address the question of power but it appears you would argue that at least we have the right. You say "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.
I guess some kind of egocentric rationale could be advanced to support the proposition that "Islamo-Fascism, or ethnic and religious intolerance" are so connected to terrorism that we should force "change" on them but tell me again; how is it that democracy will "change" those realities? Will majority rule by the Shiites, or Palestinians, or any of the many ethnic and religious sects somehow change ethnic and religious intolerance or defeat Islamo-fascism in any nation in the middle east?
And when you tell me, be sure to mention how much progress we've made on those three fronts with the payments of hundreds of billions of dollars and tens of hundreds of American lives in Iraq? Cause with 2,200 bodies coming home to America I really think you ought to be able to justify your rabid support for the Bush Administration's continued armed intervention in the nation of Iraq. Ed |
