Glenn Beck said it right yesterday: we won the war in Iraq, it's the peace that we're losing. We beat their army and took down their government. So what's the problem?
Glenn also said that we didn't do what we did in Japan, which was to impose a Constitution (as an aside, I once was in a conversation in which an elederly Japanese gentleman told me losing the war was the best thing that ever happened to his nation). That's exactly right, in a way I don't think he understands.
What we have not done is what every conqueror in that part of the world has always done: given a covenant. We defeated Iraq, and having done so we have become suzerain to that nation. Our obligation is to dictate to that nation the peace under which they will now live and its terms. Period.
As well, we have tried to maintain the geographical fiction of "Iraq," when what we should have done is establish three separate nations: "Kurdistan," I dunno, "Sunnistan," maybe? and "The Other 'Stan."
We're trying to conquer an enemy on Western humanist terms. That trick never works.
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Dude you are so money on this.
It's some sort of emasculation that secular humanism, no balls to rule.
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