re: #15 lawhawk

Sending troops back into Iraq isn’t going to solve things because the Iraqis still have to figure it out for themselves.

THIS. no one fought our Civil War for us, which cost us 620,000 men. And that’s just the soldiers—no telling how many civilians might have died from causes related to it.

People act as if Middle Easterners are somehow mentally or morally incapable of running democracies. How would we know when we’re continually interfering with things? How about we leave them the hell alone and let them figure it out for themselves?

Also, how about we don’t expect them to end up with American-style democracy because, y’know, they’re not American. Hell, even Israel—despite how people are always saying they’re “like us”—doesn’t have an American-style democracy, they have what works for them as a Jewish state in the Middle East with a completely different demographic mix than the one we have.