This is very bumper sticker. Fortunately, we have not spread freedom and democracy by gun point. We merely removed the hinderance we used to support. These people freely went to the polls and freely voted. They accomplished something that Arabs have never accomplished in history, despite their well to do it since the beginning of European colonialism. For peopole to dismiss this and default to their bumper srticker protest, they absolute disrespect these people as insignificant. They matter because an entire region is looking at them.
The fact is that Iraq is going to push this region further than was possible before 2003. Are you watchning what is going on in Egypt? Do you think these people would be organizing in their protests for modernization and democracy were it not for the heart land of Islam serving as an example? You have been wrong in your shallow protests and the region is going to prove it. They already are. The protest of Iraq has become simple habit for most. Upon further analysis, the old pundits have become silent and only those too stubborn to admit they were short sighted continue the bumper sticker stage.
Like it or not, but civilizational advancement and true peace has never come without blood shed. And ours depends on this backwards region's ability to emerge from their path into hellish terrorism and religious doctrine. Just what do you think this civilization will turn to when oil runs out if all theyt know is dictators, religious zealism, and oppression? 9/11 was nothing in a region where nuclear weapons are the future.
If you believe invading iraq, war, gun point is the key to spreading freedom and democracy, than that is exactly what you've done. If you believe it would come by any other means, then war is even less neccessary.
When you wreack things, break it up, smash it, people do tend to rebuild. But there is no control into how it would be rebuilt. Palistine had elections. Look who won. Iran went more radical when they were moving toward a more moderate goverance. You are simply misreading the events.
Only to the near sighted and short visioned. Iraq will and is changing the region.
Everything changes. They were changing before we invaded. Hear what I'm saying. Iran went more radical with the invasion. They were changing peacefully before we invaded.
Call it what you want, but it is the reality. Crack open any social history book. ....and Iran, China, and Russia stand for nothing that the majority of the world wants. This is why the majority of the world gravitated towards us. Even today, they may gripe about details, but they damn sure want us here. You should learn a little bit more about what this country has stood for since 1775 and what it has done for this world. People don't seem to realize that 1991 marked the end of thousands of years of oppressive prescription. Empire, Monarchy, Colonialism, Dictatorship, and Communism failed. What was left? And who made the global organizations to encourage "peace?" You should be prouder than what you are displaying.
What they stand for is besides the point. The fact is if you adopt their methods you become more like them. Just as even a comfortable prison is still a prison, an invasion and forced changed even by a democracy is still an invasion and forced change. It is imperialistic and arrogant to think we should impose even good things on the world.