You can't have democracy where Islam reigns. Islam is a fundamentally totalitarian system. It simply cannot abide the existence - no, even the idea of - civil society.
The best that we can hope for over there is that strongmen whom we can buy off or influence rule. We had that in Saddam. Sure, Shrub's daddy had to kick his ass. I was all for that. But Shrub's papa was way too smart to smash Humpty Dumpty and then try to put him back together again. He understood that Saddam's job for us was to keep a lid on the Brit-created cauldron called Iraq.
Tragically, his idiot kid wasn't so smart.
But neither were the American public at large. The fact that "conservatives" here think going into Iraq in the first place was just a peachy keen idea gives me little hope for the near-term survival of whatever is left of the Republic.
“” The best that we can hope for over there is that strongmen whom we can buy off or influence rule. We had that in Saddam. Sure, Shrub’s daddy had to kick his ass. I was all for that. But Shrub’s papa was way too smart to smash Humpty Dumpty and then try to put him back together again. He understood that Saddam’s job for us was to keep a lid on the Brit-created cauldron called Iraq.
Tragically, his idiot kid wasn’t so smart.””
You maybe just forgot that Clinton campaigned on taking out Saddam in 1992 or that he bombed Iraq starting in June of 1993 and continuing for eight years.
What was so great about Kuwait?
We know the media made up stories about Iraqi “atrocities” there. And we also know that the Kuwaitis were side drilling into Iraqi oil fields.
Who cares if they were Iraq’s “19th province”. We should never have gotten involved in intra-Arab squabbles.