An Iraq War veteran pens a powerful defense of the decision to invade, remove Saddam

Canada Free Press ^ | 05/27/15 | Dan Calabrese

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When we remove a ruler we should be willing to step in and impose our own rule till the people are truly ready to rule themselves. Start teaching elementary children about representative democracy and start holding elections at the lowest levels. It might take a generation or more but these are people with no real history or understanding of freedom and democracy.

It goes even deeper than that. When you attempt to make a tribal people of islamists into your own image of judeo-christian self rule, whose batsh*t crazy underlying belief system is 180 degrees out of phase with those values, you are on a fools errand. You either stay the multi-generational long haul and change the 'religious' dynamic from the bottom up to support democratic self rule or conduct a harsh punitive expedition, scorch the earth and leave.