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Originally Posted by Madelaine Amee
When I see any sign that these middle eastern countries are prepared to reject Al Qaeda themselves without help from the rest of the world, then I would agree with us helping. Until that time I say NO to getting involved in any more of these tribal wars.
Show me that you want to move out of the dark ages and into the 21st century and live like civilized human beings, allow the woman that want to - to not live in purdah, allow their female children to be educated (if they so wish) and treat their women with dignity instead of beasts of burden, then I would agree to us helping them in any way we can.
I am rapidly coming to the conclusion that the only way to have peace in the middle east is for these people to live under a dictator. Every country where we have taken out the dictator has fallen into chaos.
I have never felt this way before, but the loss of life and limb from the Iraq debacle has changed my opinion on many things.
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And to add to this, can anyone think of any country that we have "liberated" that has remained a democracy or that has even embraced our views on freedom. It seems to me that these dictators appreciate us much more than the "freely elected" leaders that are subsequently installed do. From Cuba on, it is time for us to learn the hard lesson, we are not the "great deciders" and we need to start taking care of our own. Stop pandering to the Corporate Political War Machines in this country. They never met a war they didn't love. And as Ike put it," Beware of the Military Industrial Complex".