Re: Dont you hate that 4000 character reply bot?
I don't support the war.
No one in their right mind ever supports wars. A necessity to help the people in the long run and actually wanting war are two very different things.
If you read my comments, I said he had nothing to do with 9/11/01. But that does not change the fact that he was a terrorist to your own country.
We go there, and we set things up, but we never follow through or check up on them, that is the problem!
If we made sure they were all right before we left, they could be a lot better off right now. What if we had had no help from outside countries during some of our early strifles? For instance, we had our Bill of Rights. We at first had no Constitution. No actual government, just a basic outline. It was impossible for the government to function.
We had to overthrow our first technical government and completely rewrite things so that we had ANYTHING to base a government on! We kept the Bill of Rights only for peace of mind for the more conservative people of the old-day U.S.A. We made so many changes, and we still make them, all the time, to our government.
But we had help. The French had in the past helped us, in our early days. At points we got help from outside countries, when we were fighting amongst ourselves. Every country sometimes needs help to get a stabilized government up and running, and the unfortunate part is that there has been no successful movement into a better government without rough times first.
The closest example to a fluid move in government change I can think of off-hand is England, when they went from Monarch to their form of democracy, with the parliament. But even then there were executions. But there was a key difference: they weren't being run by someone who was terrorizing his own country. They had more stability to work with than the Middle East does now. There's a HUGE difference when you already have a *somewhat, somehow* stable government with a fair amount of justly educated people.
Whereas the Middle East doesn't even have that. Iraq doesn't want us there, but they certainly didn't want Saddam Hussein over there, with the exception of the 20% of the population who had most of the power because he was ruling. But, while educated Iraqi students, who wrote one of the articles I quoted, don't want us there, they understand that politically for both them and us... Things are screwed over completely if we leave. There has to be enough order for things to not fall apart with another government like Saddam, or, possibly worse, another branch of the Taliban popping up. And with religious extremism on the rise today, that's not at all impossible.