On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 7:03 PM, Gruss Gott <[email protected]> wrote: >> > No, I meant the Balkans: Bosnia, Herzegovina, Kosovo. You'll recall that > Gen Clark was Supreme Commander of the NATO forces and famously told > Milosevic something like this, "I've got the ok to bomb you, and if they > tell me to bomb you, I'm going to bomb you good"
My bad, I was thinking of Falkland Islands. The Balkans, what a clustef*k So we destroyed a Christian nation because of one guy and gave it to Islam. We screwed that one up big time. > Turning dictatorships into democracies is tricky business and dependent on > thousands of things. The only democracies that have worked in the Middle > East have been when they themselves kill each other to get them (Turkey). Many of them are still living in the middle ages. We all know how they ended. > Libya is country with zero economic infrastructure (i.e., nobody can take > care of themselves) and political forces currently unknown to them much less > us. It won't be easy. > Our goal should be to help them become democratic. The problem is, we have > NO IDEA if our military involvement will get us closer or farther to/from > that goal. First, do no harm. For starters we should support democracy, not cower in the corner waiting for a champ. We're starting to do that but why the wait. Remember we had the chance to show moral support and encourage Change and Hope in Iran instead we flipped the rebels the bird. > Thus my point is, the road to Hell is paved with good intentions. Thinking > our well-intended action will have the intended consequences when we cannot > even comprehend the basic forces at play would be risky at best. We don't need boots on the ground to help. > What is my principle? Pragmatism. That's cute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:334944 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
