Yes, and that interjection was conceived in and of the same kind of starry-eyed optimism that triggered the presumptive invasion of Iraq and the mind-boggling anticipation that these people of a primitive culture would WELCOME our dragging them into the twenty-first century.
Please, share your wisdom: Why exactly should we ignore nations that harbor, train and fund terrorists? Because it worked so well in Afghanistan?
Also, if we hadn't supported the newborn Israeli state, there would have been a Holocaust II on the shores of the Med. You think that was an inappropriate move, then?
mind-boggling anticipation that these people of a primitive culture would WELCOME our dragging them into the twenty-first century.
Well of course people would hate to be rescued from having their tongues cut out or their daughters raped to make political points. What an arrogant bunch we are to think that all humans prefer peace and freedom to being terrorized by some tinpot idiot. How silly to believe that it's not the secret police or the brainwashing school systems that are the problem, it's really the basic inferiority of the Arab, it's so plain! </sarcasm>