Your optimism is just phenomenal. ha.
It was worth it. No country is ever READY for democracy. Guess by tthat reasoning we should just wait till democracy springs forth full blown from Medusa’s head...and then let the people have freedom.
America came very very close to not being democratic or just not being.
and of course, the Germans could never be democratic and never the Japanese....its an old imperialistic argument that is very very tired.
“and of course, the Germans could never be democratic and never the Japanese....its an old imperialistic argument that is very very tired.”
If we were embarking on a defeat->occupy->rebuild strategy, as we did in Japan and Germany, you could make an argument for Iraq.
“No country is ever READY for democracy. Guess by tthat reasoning we should just wait till democracy springs forth full blown from Medusa’s head...and then let the people have freedom.”
Your idealism is admirable, but in this case it’s also idiotic. The only thing “springing from Medusa’s” head will be islamic fundamentalism. It is not up to the USA to “let the people have freedom”. You want to “give” it to people who do not reject terrorists.