It has been said that those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. That said, why are so many people wanting to hand the reins of government back over to the Iraqis?
Ignoring the question of whether we should or should not have invaded (spilt milk and all). After WW2, did the allies (mostly the US because we still had some capability at that point) hurry to get out of Japan or Germany?
No we did not, they had lost a major war and were not capable of governing themselves, and they were well established nations not the tottering wreck that Iraq had been driven to over the past 20 years.
After the American Civil War the reconstruction process was cut drasticaly short due to political infighting and caused problems for the South which continue to reverberate to this day.
If we Americans are going to conquer another country we need to be resposible enough to rebuild it properly, not a half-assed rush job because of whining liberals.
2006-09-19
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