"Why do you care? I thought you were a small govt., no nation building kind of guy."
As long as people like you are supporting big government totalitarian operations like Saddam's Ba'athists there will be a need to contain or liberate and rebuild nations like Iraq and Afghanistan. Expecting nations that have been mismanaged by totalitarians for decades to function as more capitalistic societies than America while rebuilding infrastructure from scratch is irrational.
But then, anyone supporting the continued existence of Saddam and his rapists sons and a minority government of a minority ethnic group (South Africa during Apartheid) with no electoral mandate, as legitimate sovereign rulers of Iraq must not care much about rationality.
America has done in a few years in Iraq and Afghanistan what all the charities of the world and UN schemes have failed to do while working under dictatorial regimes - improve the lives and economies of these places.
Iraq may not be a paradise of small government... unless you compare it to other Middle East nations.
Why do you care? I thought you were a small govt., no nation building kind of guy.
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ReplyDelete"Why do you care? I thought you were a small govt., no nation building kind of guy."
As long as people like you are supporting big government totalitarian operations like Saddam's Ba'athists there will be a need to contain or liberate and rebuild nations like Iraq and Afghanistan. Expecting nations that have been mismanaged by totalitarians for decades to function as more capitalistic societies than America while rebuilding infrastructure from scratch is irrational.
But then, anyone supporting the continued existence of Saddam and his rapists sons and a minority government of a minority ethnic group (South Africa during Apartheid) with no electoral mandate, as legitimate sovereign rulers of Iraq must not care much about rationality.
America has done in a few years in Iraq and Afghanistan what all the charities of the world and UN schemes have failed to do while working under dictatorial regimes - improve the lives and economies of these places.
Iraq may not be a paradise of small government... unless you compare it to other Middle East nations.