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Originally Posted by Kilgore I hate this but i have to say that Iraq needs some hard arse leaders like saddam to deal with the insurgents. These rebels are the same people saddam had to deal with and he always managed to dispose of them. Because the nation is somewhat still an anarchy in plenty of regions, it gives these insurgents their chance to fight for their extreme political views. |
As Rousseau said, fanaticism is not something that can be fought with logic, but only force.
It has been my opinion that what Iraq needed was a hard nosed intermediate ruler to clamp down and secure the nation before handing it over to the elected politicians. I'm thinking Mac Arthur in Japan.
However, the current strategy seems to be working fairly well, but history will be the judge of whether Mr. Bush was indeed smarter than I am
