“You want to stop the vote just because you don’t like how it might turn out?”
You’re damn right. I’d rather have countries friendly to the US than more Iran-type nightmares.
“Not every democracy is going to love the US. It’s a fact of the world.”
Agree.
“The people there make their own decisions about whom they want in power.”
Sorry, but I like the idea of us having some say also.
“You wouldn’t have wanted the US military to take over the country and cancel Election Day to stop Obama from being president, would you?”
Considering our debt level and the future of this country...no comment.
“I mean... as much as we all detest him, I’d rather elect a bad leader than have a military dictatorship deciding everything. That never goes well.”
It went great for Chile, and prevented them from becoming a Marxist state. A true US success story and more freedom there than could have ever been dreamed of, had their “people’s revolution” played out.
“Let the vote go through, let the chips fall where they may. We have no idea what’s going to happen. But the fact that the new government might not be friendly toward us isn’t going to be, and shouldn’t be, a factor. Freedom is messy. Isn’t that what we tell liberals?”
I prefer having friendly countries around the world. If we go isolationist, others (like China now) fill in the vacuum and we become Third World as they control our access to resources. You may be fine with that, but not me.
I’m not saying become isolationist. I’m saying that people around the world are going to make decisions on whom they want to be in power. It’s none of our business. We have no say in the matter who gets elected dog catcher in Moscow. The people that have to live under the rule of the president get to decide.
They didn’t elect anyone over here. We don’t get to take that decision from them.
It would be great if a guy friendly to the US was in there. But that’s not always possible. The people that live there do NOT want the military in charge. They want elections. They spent weeks fighting and dying to get Mubarak out of there. They are fighting and dying right now to protest what they see as the military going back on their word by trying to delay the election.
And, no. Despite the debt and everything, I’m sure you would rather not live under a military dictatorship than deal with Obama. We can make sure he loses his job in 2012. With the military, we wouldn’t have that luxury. Democracy has worked in this country for 222 years. Why not let other countries have that as well? They aren’t children. And the more that we treat them as children, the more they are going to resent us as a country, and hate Americans.