quietfanatic said:
Can Iraq become a democracy?
Not likely any time soon.
As with Afghanistan, the large number of factions already causes conflict, while other Arab nations try to destabilize Iraq to damage America and maintain their own power. Many developing world people not only don't want democracy, they don't understand it even if they want it. They need to slowly develop a sense of freedom and equality in a stable political atmosphere so they can go toward first world status.
Actually, Afghanistan has their constitution now. So yes, it is likely, and perhaps soon, maybe within the next six months even.
quietfanatic said:
Just say we did have world peace, democracy everywhere and a sense of the right to have a good standard of living. The world’s resources would be stretched to breaking point and the Yanks would have to lose their wasteful lifestyle (as would the rest of the world boo hoo). No more cheap labour and true free trade would result in America going suicide bomber style and nuking everything to maintain power. However, this is based on the premise that American foreign policy never changes (hasn’t so far) and the world becomes a paradise (before it gets nuked in a few hours of course).
Are you saying you want a nuclear war?
quietfanatic said:
America never learns from its mistakes in foreign policy and always just tries to look after number 1 without taking the rest of the world into account.
Dude, study history more often. Ever hear of Somalia?
quietfanatic said:
They install puppet dictatorships and try to create power balances that keep countries weak while looking after their own interests.
We install dictatorships? Are you retarded?
quietfanatic said:
They are only giving reconstruction contracts to nations that sent military support in Iraq (e.g. no good German engineers aloud) and just want to keep the oil safe.
Riiight, like they wouldn't do the same. Let's let the people who actually supplied Saddam against us and bashed the coalition and hoped for our failure get a piece of the pie? I repeat my question...are you retarded?
quietfanatic said:
But if the US want to the policemen of the world (Bush called Howard deputy sheriff in the Asia Pacific region ha, ha), they have to remain impartial and help the third world, even though it will hurt them to do so.
Like I said, study up on history, read up on Somalia.