[SuziQ]

The President helped the Palestinians get what they said they wanted, the freedom to govern themselves. He has shown them up to be what they truly are, not people committed to creating a thriving nation for themselves, but common thugs who are mired in hatred created by their fellow Arabs, who refused to take them in to their countries when Israel was formed. They were offered the chance to return to Israel, but refused, egged on by their co-religionists, who then left those Palestinians in squalor in the refugee camps. The Arabs WANTED to grow terrorists, and that's exactly what they did.

Now folks everywhere can see just how poorly the Palestinians would handle being a sovereign nation.

[SJackson]

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Rather short, but essentially correct. Armed terrorist groups should not be accepted in the electoral process. Hamas, Hizbollah, al Sadr in Iraq. Fortunately Egypt ignored our "advice" about increased Muslim Brotherhood participation in their elections.

[Will88]

There’s American style democracy with our Constitution and Bill of Rights, then there are other forms of democracy. In both Afghanistan and Iraq, they held free elections and sought input from their populations about what sort of constitution they should have. Both nations based their constitutions on sharia.

We’ll know how successful our efforts in those two Islamic nations have been over five to ten years after most US troops have been withdrawn, and we see happens when those peoples are on their own.

But, the article contains a good bit of truth. The Islamists often win elections as in Algeria, and they are near that in Turkey. We should definitely have learned that, just because free elections are held, it doesn’t mean we’ll like the results, and the results might be worse than what existed before the elections.

I hope we’ve learned that everyone does not want American style freedom, democracy and individual rights. Many Americans have lived under the illusion that they do for far too long.

[DB]

When people elect terrorists to represent them they become responsible for the terrorist they elected. Those voters can no longer be considered “innocent” and can be held accountable as a whole. I think that is a good thing. Or in other words it eliminates the excuses and unveils the people for what they are.

[traviskicks]

Not the best explanation of this theory, but certainly I think a more non interventional foreign policy is both more consitutional and would reduce terrorism.

[exnavy]

Very good point.