What kind of bizarre mentality is it which sees Person #1 attack Persons #2-#10 and concludes blithely "I guess People #1-#10 don't want democracy"? There should be a name for it because it is very widespread.
Which people do you think you're talking about? The handful of people who attacked a mosque, or the millions who voted? Why don't the millions count, and why do the minority of terrorists get to speak for everyone there, in your eyes? Why do you slap this label "the people over there" on the most violent minority?
Snap out of it.
The ball is in their court now. What else can we do for them?
Of course the ball's in their court. We put it there, by overthrowing their dictator. So, yes, the ball's in their court. That was the idea!
I think the remaining thing we can do for them is to have patience and not to give up on them based on silly, bizarre reasoning such as "the democratic majority there are under attack therefore they don't want democracy". Open your eyes and try to see the silent, peaceful majority.
Why does a certain stripe of conservative have no trouble understanding the silent majority concept in his own country but cannot see it in others?
A revolution is underway. People forget that during our own revolution, a minority were Whigs; a minority were Tories; the majority of people were in the middle. If Saratoga had not brought France into the war, things would have gone "differently." How we don't know, except that the majority would have gone to the winning side. And this will not be simply a sectarian battle.
It is a tribal society, and the tribes are divided religiously.
Do you understand that Iraqis are so segmented and have such a tribal mentality that it will be practically impossible to satisfy everyone?
The problem is, when they (Iraqis) are not satisfied, they elect to blow things up and kill people. I'm not saying it to bash the president by any means. I supported the war, but now, I think we need to get out. Leave them to their own devices. If they hoist up another Saddam, then we can do the same thing. The idea that "we break it we buy it" is only a rule because we choose to follow it. Only recently have states gone to war, defeated their enemy and then rebuilt their country. Maybe the name you can't seem to come up with should be.... Post war isolationism... or something...