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Originally Posted by mburbank
We got good news and bad news. The good news is, we toppled your dictator and now you are free. The bad news is we failed to stop your country from crumbling in the process and we haven't got any real ideas about how to put it together again.
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Isn't this a tad bit condescending? I mean, are these children we're dealing with, or are they full-grown doctors, lawyers, architects, teachers, and scientists? Don't the Iraqi people have at least a tiny stake in fighting against terorism and insurgents who want to damage their future?
The biggest obstacle, in my mind, is that for the first time in their lives, the Iraqi people are being asked to make their future what they want of it. You can say what you want about puppets and such, but these differing tribes and sects of islam are being asked to compromise and make a pact.
It's hard because it should be hard. We can place as many troops over there as we like, but until the Iraqi PEOPLE decide that they all have a collective stake in ending terrorism, curbing extremism, and building a functional government, then we will always be the "imperialists."