“I’m with you”
Me too. It was a stupid idea that had nothing to do with punishing jihadi Islam. It grew out of the crackpot utopian idea that democracy is a cure-all for every ill in the world and can be easily implanted in cultures that haven’t got any of the civil society that makes democracy work in the West.
Me too. It was a stupid idea that had nothing to do with punishing jihadi Islam. It grew out of the crackpot utopian idea that democracy is a cure-all for every ill in the world and can be easily implanted in cultures that haven’t got any of the civil society that makes democracy work in the West.
Well said.
Purple fingers don’t work in places like Iraq.
Amen brother
Goetz Von Berlichingen
A freeper whose writing skills and thoughtfulness I admired as much as yours or Ohioan or nathanbedford quit the forum over his disdain for the runaway enthusiasm for the Iraq War here
He was mocked but given hindsight today democratic nation building only works where it’s wanted with a shared tradition of civility or that nation is on its knees utterly humbled
Prepared to be led out by its master to a better path
There was never the goal, of supplanting a western “idea,” of some sort of democracy, in the mid-east. Your words betray you. By the by, there is no known working “democracy,” working anywhere— much less, in the west. Perhaps, Germany and the failed Euro-cracy come close.