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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: neolib who wrote (182134)2/21/2006 3:21:14 PM
From: Hawkmoon  Read Replies (3) of 281500
 
I really have no idea how Iraq will turn out. My gut level feeling is we have made too many mistakes and rather screwed the place up.

Now I hear again and again that somehow we "screwed up" Iraq.

It's as if folks somehow are asserting that Iraq wasn't ALREADY screwed up.

I see some people telling us that we have to get out and set the Iraqis loose upon one another in order to create a dominate power center that creates social order, but at the same time somehow we're to blame for the fact that some Iraqi factions have perpetuated the violence rather than putting Iraq's national integrity and interests first.

Mistakes? Yeah.. I guess I think we've made some mistakes (such as disbanding the army while permitting them to take their weapons home, nor forcing all soldiers to be processed in a detainment center). But the responsibility for recreating a new democratic Iraq rests squarely upon their elected officials, not the US. And they should receive the blame for failing to achieve that goal.

Hawk
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