Originally Posted by
Barbarossa
What your government fails to understand is that not everyone wants a democracy. Your government is not alone in this misconception
Some people actually like just being told what to do, so long as their is food on their table, clean water in their taps, and electricity in their TV. Unfortunately, these seem to have got AWOL for alot of the people in Iraq and Afghanistan.
I feel this is a fair-minded but unrealistic formulation, Barbie.
The mob is, first of all, most comfortable with what is most familiar.
We know this to be true from self-experience.
I guess the most apropos answer I have for your view is that Mussolini was greatly admired for making the trains run on time.
Democracy is so much more than that:
The predilection for anything less is what leads to the Shahs and Saddams of prior years, and I think we have had enough of that, at least according to those who criticize America for poking it's big nose (and military) about the globe.
True elective government weeds out Saddams and Shahs just about everywhere it is tried.
Left to themselves, these caliphate wannabees will yield to the strongest of the would-be strong-men, and the situation doesn't change at all.
If the U.S. does as it has in the past, the situation doesn't change, either.
We are in uncharted territory, as international opinion sits on the sidelines in judgement of they know not what.
In WWII, Germany and Japan, while suffering the same pains as Iraq, were resigned to their fates nonetheless by the fact they were so utterly defeated they had no choice.
Modern "opinion" no longer allows one nation to thoroughly subjugate another for that ultimate end, and disallows any consideration of the terrorist thought-process for reason of incorporation into a comprehensive strategy to fight it.
It's a tough go all 'round.
An interpreter is standing by, Busyman.
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