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Old 08-20-2007, 03:46 PM   #13 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by forester814 View Post
I can't believe that people don't see the irony. Nevermind what we might be doing behind the scenes (which I am sure is more terrible than even the rumors suggest), but just consider the public face of it.

It is saying, "We believe so strongly in the principles of freedom and self-determination that we are going force these principles upon you."

How do people manage to stifle their laughter at this ridiculously obvious contradiction?

Well, it probably helps that there is nothing funny about all the dead people, destroyed families, and ruined economies that have resulted.
Nobody forced millions of Iraqis to go to the polls and elect their own government. No matter how incompetent and childish that government turned out to be.

The problems they have are so deep and endemic they might never be completely solved, but at it's hard to argue against democratic means to solve them vs. oppression under someone like Saddam.

Unless you think that some cultures are better off being under the thumb of a strong man, where they can cower and complain but be separated from personal responsibility.

There may be something in that.