Don't forget potential secular totalitarianism (e.g., Saddam).
"WHAT DO THESE PEOPLE HAVE AGAINST FREEDOM???"
Would you feel more free if a huge country came into your moderatly sized country and told you how you are goign to run things?
We're not telling them how to run things. We are trying to restore order and establish a popularly-elected government so that the people of Iraq can decide how to run things.
How would you feel if you were ruled by a brutal dictator who gassed ethnic minorities, had sick, sadistic kids who liked to torture people for sport, and built opulent palaces while you had barely enough food to survive - and the world stood by and did nothing out of respect for your "national sovereignty?"
Now, it's not my intention to justify the decision to go to war in the first place - just to say that all these people fighting against the American presence need to get some friggin' perspective! WE ARE ON YOUR SIDE!
Trying to establish a new government is telling them how to run things. Once it is established they
theoretically will be running the show, but until them we are telling them what to do.
Yes, his sons were sick. I think they were worse then him, honestly. In addition, it isn't the job of any country to help another out. It's nice if one does, but I would never expect it. For futher information see the foriegn policy of those of us in yellow.
Amist all of this freedom building we are doing in the middle east (bringing Afganistan into the picture) what's happening to our local freedoms? Perhaps they had to collect ours for the war effort like the scrap metal of yesteryear.
We are not on the side of those that want us out, obviously, otherwise they wouldn't want us out. We think we are on their side, but that kind of relation ship takes two sides. Remember that episode of the Simpsons with Itchy and Scratchy wherein Itchy makes a cloning machine for scratchy then sets it up in front of a death machine making the whole process automated? That's kinda' how I see this situation. We just send in the troupes that say, "Let's be friends... don't pay attention to the weapons hanging off of me." and they say it until they fall into the death machine.
Ack, ok so that was the most horribly mixed analogy ever... but screw it, I'm done tping about this.
