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| Iraq |
| Stopping Saddam |
| 2013-04-13 |
| An Iraqi journalist commemorates the tenth anniversary of American troops toppling an Arab despot. Now it's time for Americans to stop feeling guilty about Iraq. The United States went to war in good will and wanted to spread democracy. But the Iraqis were not, and are still not, ready for democratic government. The fact that the whole Middle East has devolved into a Sunni-Shia war tells us that the chaos in Iraq that followed the U.S. invasion was only a small reflection of the problems in a region that was on fire long before 2003. We should also recognize that the United States still has a large role in influencing events in its interests, and shaping them according to its ideals. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #5 Of course, Mugabe is another story. Posted by Bill Clinton And there you have it. Mugabe was and is a Western creation that no one talks about. Bashear and the rest little different. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-04-13 16:23 |
| #4 I am continuously puzzled by why the world community will rend and tear their robes over a US drone strike but will allow a horror beyond horrors occur in NORK or Darfur, or Rwanda. The situation in NORK is a classic example of putting playing the party line ahead of doing the right thing. We should have gone into NORK years ago, when I say We I mean China, Russia, US, WE should have put boots on the ground in Rwanda, and that psychopath Bashear in the Sudan should be in chains in the Nederlands...a long time ago. How can anyone take the US or any western power, talking "humanitarian efforts", seriously when we have known for years about these obscenities to go on and on. Of course, Mugabe is another story. |
| Posted by: Bill Clinton 2013-04-13 13:32 |
| #3 Korea is the textbook illustration of what happens when you leave a job half-done. See also Gulf War, 1991. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2013-04-13 12:01 |
| #2 Unlike Korea, we've pretty much cleared out a problem that anchored military forces in the immediate region for nearly a generation. Korea still festers. Iraq is pretty much an Iraqi problem. Korea has become the problem for far too many to ignore anymore, yet even more dangerous because idiots with good intentions allowed the situation to develop to potential horrors that no one really wants to contemplate. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2013-04-13 08:55 |
| #1 Hat tip to author Hussain Abdul Hussain. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-04-13 08:30 |