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Originally Posted by SeattleUte
I'm not convinced. We created the conditions for the suicide bombings. This is the same as the domino fear mongering re Vietnam. Sometimes you just have to let time take its incremental toll and let people work out their own salvation and path to enlightenment.
Let me ask you this? Since when has forcible occupation by a superpower ever been a solution for anything? These are not aboriginies like Caesar found in Gaul, or American settlers found in our continent. It's a culture highly developed for better or worse. We can't impose righteousness and liberty on them.
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This problem that you identify is my main beef with the neocons. I believe that a democratic Middle east would be fantastic and in that sense I think that the neocons are visionary. But I don't think that you can impose democracy at the butt of a gun. Unless you are willing to hold that gun, for a very, very long time. Even then it is highly unlikely because imposition of values is nearly impossible.