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Originally Posted by Marinerhodes He gave you the solution. Finish the fight. Finish what we started. Set up Iraq as a democratic state, which incidentally they seem to want to one degree or another. This will create at least a toehold into the islamic world that will allow for the freedoms enjoyed by most of the rest of the world. Perhaps it will allow for some of that influence to boil over to the more hardline islamic countries. |
I think it is a nifty theory but one that would have been better applied to Afghanistan and not a secular nation that is now more likely to end up with an anti-west pro-Iranian government and a bunch of Kurds waiting to form its own nation once the "coalition" has gone.
I am sorry but I just dont buy the "toehold" argument as there are already a handful of stable semi pro-western countries in the middle east that it would have been an far easier, faster and less painful job to swing towards "model nation" status than either Iraq or Afghanistan for example Jordan, UAE, Kuwait, Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
So no I dont accept that "finish the fight" is a solution it is simply a scattergun response used when you dont really have an answer.