is occupying and invading other countries the best way to spread democracy and peace to the world?

Answer 1

Well, it DID work in Germany, Japan, Italy, and South Korea.

Answer 2

No, and history proves this QUITE well. The only successful democracies are ones who were fought for by the PEOPLE of that nation (ie France and the US).
Serpico is wrong on so many accounts/levels...Afghanistan is no more of a democracy than the Congo. It's BARELY centrally governed, even the central gov't is afraid of the Taleban.
Secondly, the Germans ELECTED Hitler, so I don't see how you mean to drag WWII into this.
Iraq was never divided the way it is now...under Saddam, people barely knew who was Sunni and who was Shi'a (and the Kurds have always been a problem, don't go there). And I don't blame them for standing by their "tribes", since the gov't was installed by an alien nation who just happens to bomb and kill people everyday.

Iran has an interest in a stable Iraq, as it's neighobur, that's more important than their "interests" there (which are none, since the Iran Iraq war was 20+ years ago).

Answer 3

Perhaps a need may arise to invading a country, but rarely. I don't see how WWII times are relevent to today's. Capitalism was used as a tool to stop a different economic model, Communism.

The very idea of "occupying" a country contradicts democracy and peace.

Perhaps the best way to spread democracy is to let it grow and not force it.

Answer 4

Here's a better question: Are the people in Iraq (or throughout the middle east) the problem or was it just a tyranical govt? Bush assumed before this conflict that the govt. of Saddam is the cause of the problems and if only they were free from his iron grip, they would all be happy (sound familiar?). we're now finding the former to be true. The people in the middle east are incapable of peaceful coexistance. Let them do what they gotta do. If anything like 9-11 happens again, push da button.

Answer 5

Well you have to ask yourslef has it ever worked? It has we had an occupancy in Germany until the german people got on the feet after world war twwo. In japan aslo we shoved democracy down the japnese and look at them now. Of course not all of our efforts have worked. Cuna for axample has a lot of history of US involvment. As of Iraq it is too early to say. Look at their neighbors Syria and Lebanon are both democracies but they are controlled by religous fanatics. Walid Shoebat author of "Why I left Jihad" said once that countries in middle east only act as democracies when they elect dictators". I also want to finish with this quote from JFK "Peace does not lie in charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of the people."

Answer 6

There are places in the world where democracy just does not belong. You can't assume it will displace centuries of strict religious rule, it won't. Neither can you compare our experience in Iraq with Germany and Japan as these two nations had functioning, secular, parliamentary, systems in place long before WWII. Good try though.

Answer 7

i will carry out a little. Like human beings, i'm lazy. a million-3, 2-2, 3-3, 4-a million, 5-3, 6-a million, 7-2, 8-2, 9-a million, 10-4, I wish we had some thing like Yahoo solutions while i replaced into in school. We had to do icky issues like examining and taking notes.

Answer 8

No. It is the best way to have our military depleted and families destroyed for someones personal grudges against another. We cannot run our own country democratically. How can we go and tell someone else how to run their country?? If the U.S. is an illustration of democracy, I pity the countries that we try to mold.

Answer 9

Its simple before you take a belt to your kids you try talking to them . When that fails you do what you have to and ensure that they follow the rules .
Since we tend to make the rules now the rest of the world can do what johnny does and listen to what they are told to do ,or he can be like mike and get the seat of his pants around his ankles and a good whipping .
This is how things go from now on . Get use to our increased involvement all over the world .

Answer 10

Democracy is no more right for every culture than communism is. When Democracy and Islamic extremism meet, we're just granting people the freedom to oppress one another. Let them come about it on their own terms if they care to.