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Politics : View from the Center and Left -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: zeta1961 who wrote (29968)	10/12/2006 12:59:21 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541786

Using your own personal experience can give you a rather limited view. It may not, in your case, but it can. Your young man from Iraq, for example- he wants a country back that never existed. What he wants is the Iraq he imagines; he doesn't want it back the way it was under Saddam. But there are many Iraqis who "want back" a very difference country, and if you were knowledgeable about the religious differences, and underlying ethnic hatreds, you would know that trying to "give back" Iraq to any cohesive group of Iraqis was going to be so problematic it was foolish to try. I realize saying something like that may seem like aid and comfort to the enemy to you, I hope it doesn't, but it may seem like that, but it's not. Any one of a number of decent books on Iraq laid out the faultlines. Your naive young man who thought he could get a country "back", that never really existed in the first place but for the brutality of a dictator, obviously never read those books.