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To: tejek who wrote (342095)	7/4/2007 2:28:15 PM
From: d[-_-]b	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573211

As for Iraq, I think it has created more terrorists and more hatred for the West......needlessly. It is symptomatic of the lazy and uninformed, American approach to world problems........go in and fight a conventional war in a much weaker country and hope to win and solve the problem. We learned nada from Vietnam and Korea. I agree we have created more terrorists but the original premise of Iraq was wmd in the hands of a nutter. The terrorism part I think was a side effect either counted on to concentrate them in one place and or a complete oversight. In either case the attitude of not seeing the potential insurgency and being well prepared to avert it is what bothers me most. There was for a brief moment at the beginning of the war for a great outcome. There was an excellent article on liberty, freedom and democracy and the central idea was Bush and others got democracy in the wrong location thinking it would bring liberty and peace. The author expressed the exact opposite order that liberty and freedom generally lead to democracy and that the administration put too much emphasis on democracy. In Iraq a strong dictator or other form of government with guarantees on liberty would have been a better approach. The other problem being the massive corruption endemic to that culture - this same problem exists all over asia, but free markets tend to correct that over time versus socialist economies that encourage corruption. It will take decades to mend the animosity it has created against this country throughout the world They always have a reason to dislike us - at least this time we can put a finger on "the" reason this week. I think most european countries have already gotten over their issues by electing new leaders and we'll soon be doing the same - as for the middle east - I don't really think anything we do will ever truly bring them around unless we stop buying their oil and they have to actually start producing something in this world economy and they learn to get along by controlling their own lunatics.