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Originally Posted by Undertoad
http://denbeste.nu/essays/strategic_overview.shtml
1. To ... eliminating one government which had been providing such support.
2. To ... apply substantial pressure on ... the region.
3. To convince the governments ... so that they would stop using us as scapegoats.
4. To make clear to everyone in the world that reform is coming, ...
5. To ... change ... the "Arab Street"
6. To "nation build". ...
7. Not confirmed: ... a honey-pot to attract militants from the region, causing them to fight against our troops instead of planning attacks against civilians.
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All of this says we must be the world's policeman. We must impose our value systems on those other regions. It assumes that all terrorists today are the same people yesterday - ignoring the fact that large groups of terrorists are created by foreign interventions. To nation build - which once was called taboo by the Republicans. To nation build those who don't want or need nation building.
To make clear to everyone in the world that reform is coming is a blantant declaration that we will save the world from itself. That is the mantra of the Religous Right Extremists. We will impose democracy because they cannot? Are they living in the real world? The only reforms that work are ones a nation itself imposes - and only after they have killed or sweated enough to appreciate the value of those reforms.
A policeman cannot reform anyone or any nation. Only the naive with a political agenda would try to do in the Middle East what this administration is doing. But then it was called the Project for a New Ameircan Century based upon a memo that even called for unilateral (Pearl Harbor type) attacks on India, Russia, and Germany. These are honest and trusted leaders in the White House? People we can trust to save the world from itself?
We are discussing the future safety of Americans. It only get worse when America decides to impose its will on all countries in another region. Anyone, but a mental midget president, can see that. Leave them alone and they will fight among themselves - a domestic dispute. Eventually they will learn from and correct their mistakes. Try to impose reform on the whole bunch - and they all turn on us - even more aggressively. What this president does will make the world much less safe for Americans.
Same president who was so stupid as to even disban the Iraqi Army and police. You trust this same uneducated man to save the Middle East from itself?