[PornoDoggy]

I think you are living on Fantasy Island. IMHO, referring to George Marshall in the same breath with Bush is to profane the General's name.

You cannot compare our occupation of Germany and Italy with a future occupation of Iraq - there are tremendous cultural differences in the present situation that didn't apply in the past. Germany and Italy had fought wars and been through a lot of political struggles to unify as countries only 80-odd years before WWII; Iran is an artificial western creation containing elements every bit as disparate as that other western creation success story - Yugolovia.

And the idea that our form of Jeffersonian democracy will spread quickly in a culture where the right of women to drive is a radical question is just outright ludicrous. How are you going to allow democracy in a country where, at the first opportunity, you will find yourself facing an elected government run by the same Islamic fundamentalists we seek to prevent Iraq from aiding? A number of the "brutal repressive dictatorships" that some anti-Arab folks point to have become more repressive and reversed trends toward democracy in the face of Islamic fundamentalism.

I grew up in the Cold War, where the commies were hell-bent on spreading their way of life on unwilling people at the point of a gun. What you seem to be thinking sounds suspiciously like what I grew up learning was evil. And it is likely to work for us as it did for them.



Last edited by PornoDoggy at Mar 15 2003, 05:48 PM