Bill Arnold wrote: > >> Therein was, and is, the appeal of what we've done: To give others >> that right. Certainly, average Iraqis and Afghanis had no such power >> before either invasion; now, despite the upheaval, they do. > > > Are you still running around with the 'Mission Accomplished' banner? > Aren't you aware that there is a civil war going on right now in Iraq - > and that, not the occupier - will decide the fate of the Iraqi gov't? > > Here's the thing: nobody, not I or anyone else, is saying that Saddam > was good guy and that having him in power was a good thing. The issue, > the problem, was over how change was to be brought about. My POV is that > we would have gotten the desired result by fashioning our own society > into an irresistible model, i.e. leadership by example. With > communications making the world smaller and smaller, the things we do > (or don't do) become more and more observable. In the USSR, the > photocopier machine had as much to do with the collapse of that regime > as any other factor. The truth, the facts, will eventually reach the > people, and if the picture it paints is appealing enough, people will > move towards it all on their own. >
CLAP CLAP CLAP !!!! Hear Hear! If you behaved that way they a lot of people would admire you instead of... _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
