Why does the Bush administration believe that they can change the mindsets Iraqis have had for centuries?

Question

For centuries, Iraqis have been grouped by their Shia/Sunni/Kurdish religious backgrounds. Now, they need to adapt to a unified country and change their lifestyles?
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Yes Arkie, false hope that is.

Answer 1

Bush went into Iraq without complete knowledge of the culture and the forced peace that existed between all the different sects. When so many of the countries population, Kurds and Shiites, had been rules by the iron fist of Saddam, it shouldn't have taken a brainiac to figure out those people would fight for control in a vacuum of power.

Answer 2

I cannot take issue with what you said since I also believe that a democracy in Iraq is impossible. The people have never had it. They wouldn't know what to with it and they do not want it. America should pull out and go home while sending more troops to Afghanistan because the Pakistanis will never help us eliminate the Muslim terrorists because it is against their religion to do so. The Qur'an (Jihad section) makes it very clear that Muslims must help other Muslims who are in need of help especially fighters for the faith.

Answer 3

Unlike Liberals who see Middle Easterners as just a scary bunch of fist pumping ragheads, enlightened thinkers like Bush see a people who are intelligent and rational enough to rule themselves without a strongman dictator to keep them in line.

So, if Liberals want to denigrate Middle Easterners because they have brown skin and a different culture, that is their mistake. We conservatives have faith that the desire to live in freedom transcends all other petty obstacles.

Bush once talked about the "soft bigotry of low expectations". Maybe Liberals don't have faith in the ability of Arabs and Persians to evolve mentally, socially, and politically, but we Conservatives certainly do.

Answer 4

They don't think they can change the Iraqi's customs, they just plain don't care. The Bush administration and cronies are making lots of money off this war.

Answer 5

Iraq hasn't been a nation for centuries, so they haven't had the same mindset...aside from that, our administration just wants power and money. They don't care about democracy, Iraqis, or Islam.

Answer 6

because saddam was in the process of ethnicly cleansing the kurds from the face of the earth when we stopped him...the kurds wouldnt have to have worried about mindset...THEY WOUDLVE BEEN DEAD...stop reading the pelosi press releases..and leave them where they belong, at the fish market. jihad is real, deadly and current and cut and run is plain and simple cowardice.

Answer 7

Hope springs eternal.

Answer 8

Because they don't understand the issues to begin with.