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To: samtheman
Just curious, do you believe the current Neo-Wilsonian nation building effort to convert the rabid Islamist hordes to liberal democracy is an effective war fighting strategy?

That's not what we're doing.

Our commitment to democracy is also tested in the Middle East, which is my focus today, and must be a focus of American policy for decades to come. In many nations of the Middle East -- countries of great strategic importance -- democracy has not yet taken root.......Some skeptics of democracy assert that the traditions of Islam are inhospitable to the representative government. .....It should be clear to all that Islam -- the faith of one-fifth of humanity -- is consistent with democratic rule. Democratic progress is found in many predominantly Muslim countries -- in Turkey and Indonesia, and Senegal and Albania, Niger and Sierra Leone. Muslim men and women are good citizens of India and South Africa, of the nations of Western Europe, and of the United States of America. More than half of all the Muslims in the world live in freedom under democratically constituted governments. They succeed in democratic societies, not in spite of their faith, but because of it. For the Palestinian people, the only path to independence and dignity and progress is the path of democracy. (Applause.) ....The great and proud nation of Egypt has shown the way toward peace in the Middle East, and now should show the way toward democracy in the Middle East....The establishment of a free Iraq at the heart of the Middle East will be a watershed event in the global democratic revolution. (Applause.) -President Bush

136 posted on 10/04/2006 1:21:20 PM PDT by AdamSelene235 (Truth has become so rare and precious she is always attended to by a bodyguard of lies.)
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To: AdamSelene235

I'm not going to get into it with you. You belong on another forum. One with a more anti-war orientation.

All I know is what I originally posted --- that libertarians just don't get it about war --- you are proving in spades.

Thank you.


139 posted on 10/04/2006 1:48:53 PM PDT by samtheman (The Democrats are Instituting their own Guest Voter Program.)
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