MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
In the recent Global Peace Index Rankings (which ranked 121 rather influential countries), Iraq ranked the lowest, while Norway ranked the highest. US ranked 96th, and Canada ranked 8th.
Yes, Iraq ranked the lowest. It was in 2002 when our brave Southern neighbours set out to the Persian Gulf to turn what was known as a horrible country lead by a horrible dictator who developed WMDs. 6 years later, Iraq ranks the lowest.
MISSION FUCKING ACCOMPLISHED.
Well let’s see. The greatest fundamental mistake of this war was that Iraq is not fit for a democratic government. Democracy isn’t for everybody. It’s not even really a global ideal - it’s something that people on this side of the world often call for as they try to re-distribute wealth and power to more people rather than letting a regime hold onto it. Essentially what communism and capitalism try to accomplish is the same thing, but through different methods, if you think about it. Who the hell set this standard so that people in the Western World feels compelled to inject their way of living to other countries? What makes them think that all societies are ready for the same type of government we have? I like the system here, and I don’t want anybody changing it.
We’re not doing anybody a favour by going into other countries trying to “Liberate” them. The last time that was done validly was with France - only because they already had their own sovereignty which got taken over by Hitler. The truth is, the Vietnamese people did not want the South Vietnamese government (backed by the US) to win, because they were notorious for their corruption. But since the ideologies matched better, the US backed the South Vietnamese Government. The North Vietnamese government still had more support from people.
Democracies are only successful if it is self-instigated from within. The French transition to democracy was a successful one and same with Britain. The same applies to the USA, and I commend them for winning the Independence war, and I like George Washington.
The unsuccessful democracies were the South Vietnamese government (which ceases to exist), South Korean Government (which I know from a fact from growing up in that country that it took another 50 years to actually achieve it, and we did it ourselves without the help of Americans).
Iraq was a country with the Sunnis and Shiites head-to-head with each other, and the only way to keep them from killing each other on a daily basis was Saddam’s iron-fist regime which wouldn’t tolerate such activities. Hence less innocent people died. Yes, I know that whoever opposed Saddam got murdered ruthlessly in public beheadings, but it’s not like the Western World did not have public beheadings. As our society got all sophisticated and unwilling to publicly display the dirty deeds we switched over to private execution with gas chambers, electric chairs, and lethal injection.
Saddam was a better fit for Iraq. Unless you can justify killing your own children to change a political structure, do not force it on the Iraqi families to do so.
Mission Accomplished. Iraq is now the least peaceful nation in the world due to an attempt that was flawed from its very motive.
Jeff, this is a perfect example of why the authorities don’t shut down big gangs like the Hells Angels and such. When you relate Iraq to local gang activity, you realize that by upsetting the balance the others will stir and capitalize. Sometimes you have to keep the bad guys occupied with each other to keep things neutralized. I agree.
But, I’m all for the war. You need to create a foothold for things to come. Some might think we’d be better off not starting war. What would have happened since? Just the usual Saddam headlines, and ultimately, Israel would have went to war. If not for Israel, there would be no country with the balls to stand up to old school aggression. Let the U.S. take the example of bigger balled countries and dominate. Would you rather the worlds police be Russia or China? Most of us don’t.
Israel should be fighting their own wars for once instead of relying on the UK and USA to set up a country for them and supply them with shit.
If the Middle Easterners manage to wipe Israel off the map, so be it - that’s the war in their own land, and I don’t think we have any say in it whatsoever.
If anything, the very existence of Israel is a messed up concept - you can’t actually geo-politically cut off a piece of land from Palestine and give it to another group of people based on religious views. The creation and existence of Israel is a wrong concept to begin with.
Damn, you are good! It boggles my mind sometimes how both young men as well as women actually do get involved in the political arena as well as the other venues at large. Very refreshing to see it, read it and absorb.