"perceive the liberation of Iraq as none of our business, end of story."
You failed to answer the question:
"Whatever good they are doing in Iraq, though, it doesn't make me any more comfortable with our invasion- with the reasons for it, with the destabilization of the region, and with the likely results in terms of the government of Iraq, and in terms of the sectarian problems that seem to be in a downward spiral."
What do you perceive the reasons for the liberation of Iraq to be?
It was interesting to see the coalition of bribed and coerced back peddle at mach speed when their benefactor was at risk of actually being deposed. France, Germany, China and Russia really missed the revenue that Iraq had provided for them.
Regardless of what might have been if we had ignored the tyranny of Saddam through yet another Administration, we made it our business. When Democrats were afraid to face the voters and explain why they would not vote to support the liberation of Iraq in 2002 it made your line of reasoning moot. They overwhelmingly voted to give the power to the President, who used the authority to remove a tyrant. What is following is a slow progress of repressed people learning to practice democracy.
"sometimes the tyrant is better than what comes after the tyrant."
Do you pine for English rule of the Americas too?
"The "terrorist bug zapper idea" assumes we have the moral right to turn a country into a bug zapper."
It actually only requires a willingness to view current events and witness what is actually happening. Thousands of foreign terrorists have died and thousands more are incarcerated in Iraq. The ranks are thinning.
"There is no news coverage in many parts, because it is so violent- and no one can cover the news."
The terrorists have learned from past manipulators. They arrange an attack close to the areas that formerly mainstream media like to congregate. They time the attacks so that the easily manipulated media will have time to put it on the evening news. If these media figureheads were willing to work a little, they would venture out and report on US servicepersons working to rebuild schools, and delivering schools supplies to the students. They might report on the opening of better sanitary water facilities than that part of Iraq has ever had. |
