Re: What to do about Iraq now?

Amerikans your God has forsaken you.

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"John" <guinnog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Mark Test wrote:
> > "John" <guinnog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> >
> >>>Mark Test wrote:
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> >>>
> >>
> >>>As far as their war fighting skills go, they conduct cowardly attacks,
> >>>murder kids, then hide behind their women.
> >>
> >>Sigh. I suppose that's why they call them 'terrorists', eh? Welcome to
> >>the unwinnable 'War Against Terrorism'.
> >>
> >
> > So, what are we to do? Quit? It's obviusly un-winnable in your view.
> > Sad (sigh) that you don't get it. They will continue to murder no
matter
> > what the US / world does.
> >
> > Establishing democracy in the mid-east, and a free-market will raise
> > the quality of life for all Arabs, and be a start towards dramatically
> > reducing terrorist recruits.
> >
> > It will not be easy, and it will probably take generations to happen.
> >
> > Unless you know of a better way?
>
> Sure.
>
> However much it offends your amour-propre, you will have to sit down and
> treat with them. On this occasion the intervention has been badly
> handled and unsuccessful. You will have to accept that, and try to get
> out with as much dignity as you can somehow muster in defeat.
>
> Democracy cannot be imposed from without. What is happening in Iraq at
> the moment is very far from democracy. Getting the majority of the Iraqi
> population to hate the supposed purveyors of deomocracy more than a
> monstrous tyrant in two short years was quite a feat.
>
> Long term, ending Israel's blank cheque of military aid and accepting
> other nations' right to govern themselves as they see fit; ie an end to
> the effective worldwide Monroe Doctrine which seems to have pertained
> since the 9-11 atrocity. It doesn't stick, it doesn't work, as Iraq has
> shown.
>
> Finally, ending US dependency on inefficient combustion of other
> people's fossil fuel reserves would be smart.
>
> You did ask.
>
> John


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