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Originally Posted by FOG
I guess my ramblings are along the lines of WTF? Our country has had a representative democracy for a long time and has had that time to get use to it’s form. Expecting Iraqis to have a homogenous view of things when we in the U.S do not at best borders on lunacy.
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You are dead right, Fog. It wasn't until, when? that women even had the right to vote in this country. How long were blacks riding in the back of the bus? It's been a long time comin' to the point we are now at - and we have further to go.
What sticks in a lot of people's craw is that they bought the misbegotten notion that the Iraqis would throw flowers at our feet, throw us a big party with hugs all 'round and we would return home with a smile of satisfaction on our face.
Didn't work out that way. The masses here didn't give much thought to what a huge task nation building is, or our,dubious, expertise in that area, believing that the Iraqi's were already an industrious, hard working, modern culture who would immediately begin taking their place in the ME as a progressive, democratic country.
Didn't work out that way. Now it seems that McCain's statement that we may be in Iraq for maybe the next hundred years helping the Iraqis emulate what we did here is not that far fetched, or in fact, unreasonable.
The fact is that most people here aren't in agreement with that notion and want another solution that will free us from that responsibility that we so stupidly commited ourselves to.
As I said in my response to Dan, we've created a grim conundrum.