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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JDN who wrote (691678)	7/12/2005 5:46:58 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

[Corrupt and repressive and un-democratic regimes would fall throughout the region...] "I have difficulty following your reasoning since Saudi Arabia and Iran are neither a democracy." EXACTLY! That's my point. BOTH the Iranian Theocrats AND the corrupt Saudi Royals are extremely unpopular... fighting each other (through a 'proxy war' in Iraq) will cause further hardships for their people, and lead to the rulers becoming even MORE unpopular, ultimately leading to the fall of their Authoritarian, unrepresentative governments. (Not only could that advance the cause of Democracy in the region, but by having the most EXTREME fundamentalists on both sides of the Sunni/Shiite divide occupied with fighting each other, it would get us out of the insurgents' crosshairs.) Remember: the Saudis in the 'eighties were URGING the US to back Saddam when he started losing his war against Iran. The Sunni/Shiite question has been waiting a long time. (The Islamic world never had a Reformation like Christianity did in the West.) Far better to let our most RADICAL enemies fight each other... then to stand in the middle between them, trying to hold back the march of history.