Les Cargill said:
Richard said:
Morris Dovey said:
Richard Bos wrote:
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If it'd been Ahmurrica Rules! it would've been extremely
offensive, since ruling the world is exactly what the USA is
trying to do.
Richard...
Do you really believe that
Given the USA's recent behaviour in international politics, I can really
think of only two explanations: either not only George Junior, but every
single member in his entire staff is a complete moron, _or_ the USA
really is trying to force the whole world into accepting its definition
of "democracy" and "Free World", by means of being the biggest bully in
the class. I think the first explanation is less likely.
the whole idea is to have muslims venting anger at each other, at
their own politicians and thereby internalizing their deep
dissatisfactions, instead of towards americans and their full-tilt,
boogie-woogie support of israel. invading and occupying an arab land
with bullshit about WMDS, undermines the very benefits democracy is
supposed to bring about. it's the right overall strategy, but done
with piss-poor execution. i.e., the bush admin is indeed filled with
narrow-minded nutcases trying to do the right thing. the worst of it
is, they simply won't listen to people who know better, and you just
can't help people who are in denial.
however, even if they did execute the war and post-war perfectly,
there's still another problem. we are dealing with dysfunctional
iraqi values that are just as stubborn as the bush admin. (e.g. they
hold in contempt the very armies that liberated them from saddam) it
will take decades, thousands of US casualites, hundreds of billions of
dollars, before we can change iraqi attitudes, values and mindsets.
they must learn why corruption and ignorance is anti-democratic; why
fairness, merit, the rule of law, are critical to excellence and
prosperity; and most of all, they must learn it from a bush admin who
violated almost all of the above on their march to war.
