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Yeah, I guess you're right. It's just really hard to realize that we've expended one hell of a lot of time and money, and the lives of several hundred of our best and brightest (and note that by "our", I mean us, the UK, and all members of the "coalition of the willing"), to knock Saddam out of power. Granted, we ostensibly did it mainly for our own security, but we also brought 20+ million people out from under the heel of one of the world's worst tyrants.

If you watch the media, our thanks are to be accused of everything that goes wrong whether it's our fault or not. If you believe ABCCBSNBCNPRCNNBBC, we're too incompetent to fix electricity and water, most Iraqis hate us and want us gone, the UN is alternately saying "we told you so" and "no, we won't bail your cowboy President out," and Iraq is now going to replace Afghanistan as a home for Islamist nutters.

It's frustrating. Just once, I'd love to see the world actually freaking THANK us for doing all the dirty work. But that'll never happen, so I guess we have to stay confident in the fact that we're doing the right things.

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It's frustrating. Just once, I'd love to see the world actually freaking THANK us for doing all the dirty work. But that'll never happen, so I guess we have to stay confident in the fact that we're doing the right things.

The media can't seem to find even one person in Iraq grateful that were there, but according to letters from soldiers and Geraldo last night that's the majority of the country.

Things that make you go hmmmm...

It's frustrating. Just once, I'd love to see the world actually freaking THANK us for doing all the dirty work. But that'll never happen, so I guess we have to stay confident in the fact that we're doing the right things.

Too many intellectuals in the world and their leftist allies in US believe that having one hyper-power that can't be realistically checked (balanced) by any other power or combination of powers is THE WORST thing in the world right now. Even understanding in principle the "badness" of Saddam and the likes, they afraid of the hyper-power more than anything else. Therefore they are not going to be thankful, and will do anything they can to limit and obstruct the hyper-power.

While in principal I can understand and even sympathize with their worries, in the real world it translates into choosing between us (US) and the militant Islam terror threat. They don't understand that US now is not just the Titans, but the Atlas himself (http://www.gods-heros-myth.com/godpages/atlas.html), carrying the world. Weaken Atlas, and the whole world will crumble. [Another analogy: we are not just a biggest guy in the house, we are the house walls] Giving them a benefit of the doubt, I can admit that the situation is not ideal, and if, IF, Atlas would go on rampage, all are dead. But we did not ask for it: the world evolved like that. And, so far, we demonstrate more morality and humility than our critics credit us or do themselves. So I agree, let's stay confident and do the right thing.