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Al Arduengo wrote:
What we are doing is trying to prop up the Iraqi military and current government to be able to take care of themselves while protecting the interests of the US, Israel, etc. Interesting that you mention we are protecting the interests of Israel. I researched it and Israel is not part of the coalition and has no troops in Iraq. So, the question begs to be asked: Why are we spending U.S. dollars and more importantly, U.S. lives, to "protect *Israel's* interests"? Also, have you considered that if we didn't trash a sovereign nation for no reason, we wouldn't have spend our dollars and our lives to "prop it up" as you say? If we were to leave now we would only have to return again. Absolutely true! Let's give the administration full credit for creating the perfect storm: damned if we stay and damned if we leave. It seems unlikely that we can "win" because as we stay, an ever larger number of Iraqis truly hate us and view -us- as the occupiers and terrorists. If we leave, most likely a huge escalation in the current civil war and probably big-time instability in the Middle East. Stay or leave, it's The Perfect Storm! This is because Iraq is populated by a large number of uneducated tribal personalities that thrive on power and control and have absolutely no regard for democracy, life or law, other than Islamic law. Yeah, the nerve of those Islamic people, running their Islamic lives by Islamic law. But again, you are absolutely correct! What you say above has been that way for over a *thousand* years. And we think we can change that in just 5 or 10 years? How naive of us. It's a damn shame the administration wasn't bright enough to realize that *before* they opened this can of worms... :-( P.S. While you are at it, could you please explain -why- the Iraqis should "have 'regard' for democracy". Just because -we- like it and it seems to have worked for us for 250 years, their tribalism and Islamic law has worked for them for a thousand years. Hubris on our part? One size (democracy) fits all? Maybe they "have absolutely no regard for democracy, life or law, other than Islamic law" because it's THEIR culture and it works for THEM. Unfortunately, we seem to be too arrogant to see that. |
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