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.
Yeah, I think that a republic is what we've had in mind from the start. Democracies tend to have short, violent lifespans. People need to start understanding the difference.
People think that just because it says Islamic Republic it equals Iran, and the media does nothing to dispel that idear. China calls itself a republic too. So did the Soviet union. Oh, so do we.
Are there any functioning "democracies" in the world? I don't know of any. Or are parliamentary governments like England and ??? "democracies". Actually I DO know that England is a Constitutional Monarchy, which more or less makes it a Republic AFAIK.
Don't lets let the rats fool us, it's just another line of attack. F'n bastards are trying to get us all killed. I'll never understand why. They'll be the first to go.