Iraq's Economy is Booming

[Sethomas]

You say we want to open up their markets liberally, which of course we do, but where is the movement to stop this from happening?

huh?

Have you bought the Al Qaeda propaganda hook line and sinker or what?

I'm a terrorist, lolz.

It's a cop out to just say Iraq was random.

Not so much a cop-out as to ignore the fact that I substantiated it by saying that the country was already polarized against Iraq's regime, hence it being a move of convenience. It was "random" in the sense that, taken a priori Iraq posed no worse or greater threat than any other nation (which is pretty accurate), but it won out in the end as target of the decade because it would have been easiest to sell a war against them than someone else most American's can't find on a map.

What I was saying with the assassination in Lebanon was that an internal movement, id est a civil war instigated by the people themselves, would set a positive example for the Middle East and thus an invasion of Iran at that point would have been superfluous at that time.

Oh, and I'm not surprised that you have an irrational fear of anyone who's qualifications on a subject are something other than "I'm half Iraqi, dumbass".

That's the perspective of the bloated American politician who probably has little know all or care of the region beyond his pork budget.

Actually, that was the scary thing about it. He and I shared several mutual friends from Iran, Afghanistan, Palestine, et cetera. He knew and respected Arab culture, he just had an impeccable ability to turn off that understanding when it came to following party boundaries.

Do you believe Western Culture is the new Communism?

Howso? Are you forgetting that a healthy majority of Western and Central European governments voted to take Communist governments after WWII, and were simply scared away from it by the United States, or is Communism synonymous with the Iron Curtain to you in this case?

I just think you need to define what you think these operations are sanitizing. Islamic culture, or the Muslim Shari'a way of life?

Well, one of the reasons I find the idea so impracticable is that those in power don't seem to know the answr to this question either.

And no, I don't really read Al Jazeera. I did learn about them that they tend to block off conspiracy theories into a special section of that very label, so maybe at least in that one respect Fox News could take a lesson from them.