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I had to listen to a British editor lecture Americans on a talk radio show how 59 million simple minded Americans would promote a simplistic foriegn policy and world view that will be diseastrous to the US. He contends that it is unfortunate that the only Americans who have the complicated view live in only the major US cities in the blue states and they were the best to lead the US in the world. Gee the last time the British entered Iraq was during World War I. They liberated the Iraqi Arabs from Turkish control and their commander somehow within six months offended all the Iraqi tribal leaders that they besieged his forces in the city of Kut. It took another British expedition to rescue them. Compared to what the US achieved the Brits are in no position to lecture who is culturally sophisticated to deal with the tribal nuances of Iraq. Finally, if Americans flaunted the blue state values (as advocated by this British editor) during the occupation of Iraq, we would have ended up with an Islamic uprising. Blue values of open homosexuality, promiscuity, femenism, female immodesty and secularism does not mix even in the moderate Islamic society. I think this Brit needs to have his head examined.