Posted on 08/16/2005 7:13:40 AM PDT by Brigadier
``We set out to establish a democracy, but we're slowly realizing we will have some form of Islamic republic,'' said another US official familiar with policymaking from the beginning.
(Excerpt) Read more at thestandard.com.hk ...
Brigadier
Yeah, Libya's giving up its WMD programs was a real bitch.
But at least no Neocons had to die...
What is it with you paleos? You act like the oceans are still a moat that would keep us from ever being attacked. Read the al Qaeda attack plan that has been posted. Their goal is a new caliphate and a decades-long struggle against the West. I'll take a moderate Islamic republic over a radical Islamist regime any day of the week - because the Islamic republic would stand in contrast to the radicals - and the radicals are fighting it tooth and nail.
Islam is antithetical to democracy. The idea that democracy would defeat not just terrorism but Islam was an unproven theory, however attractive it was in concept.
An Islamic Republic with the proper respect for human rights, can in time become more secular, or less Islamicist. The economic benefits of freedom and liberty engender and strengthen that freedom and liberty.
Once we're past the danger point of Iraq and Afghanistan succumbing to Sharia Law, the primary worry we'll have will be about them swinging in the opposite direct toward European style hedonism and socialism. Both extremes encourage and promote disenfranchisement and big government, though the socialist extreme is considerably more subtle than the theocracy.
Please do not change titles.
Again, that sounds great. But it all depends on the creep of Islam. Islam is a cancer on any society it touches. If Europe is at risk of becoming part of the caliphate, how much more at risk is a country where nearly everyone is muslim.
I find the incompetence in Washington incredible.
The reason Bush Sr. did not march on to Bagdad is he had some thinking advisors.
The people of Iraq were better off with Saddam than they will be under this "new democracy".
He had a secular government, in the midst of an Islamic stronghold . He kept religious wars and tension at bay with an iron fist.
We will now have another budding Iran that we set up to govern instead. It has already become a breeding ground for terrorists ( which it was not before )
This is not brain surgery. Some of us without the credentials of the "advisors" saw this as a real possibility before we invaded.
I fear for the Christian minority there. They will have to convert or be slaughtered.
Bush needs to stop the swagger and deal with the issues as they are now
Buchananites and fundamentalist islamicists - united in a love that dare not speak its name.
I don't trust information from unnamed sources anymore.
this is all BS.
Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation [I could be wrong] is moving steadily towards democracy.
Sorry, infrequent poster who wasn't aware of (or had forgotten) that rule. Just wanted to rub the noses of the Neocons in the mess they've made at the cost of thousands of lives.
Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation [I could be wrong] is moving steadily towards democracy.
"The people of Iraq were better off with Saddam than they will be under this "new democracy""
How were they better off?
Publishing State Department Press releases masquerading as news....rmfe.
Why does anyone get all hot and bothered about an unattributed quote that very well may be a product of this "reporter's" imagination?
God bless you, dear woman.
Grace & Peace, Allen
If you, Patsy, take your news from Robin Wright at the Wash. Post, maybe you should be in Texas carrying Mother Sheehan's water, or powdering her nose as she readies for her next interview.
Hey Brigadier I have an idea of something you can rub your nose in!
Perhaps but we weren't. Saddam was openly harboring terrorist leaders and supporting terrorists with money.
Actually ... I'm a Presbyterian (PCA)
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