Beheading in Iraq

Hmmmm... Been out in the garden all day, so coming in on this rather belatedly. Would the powers that be sacrifice an individual for political gain? Well, yeah, no kidding, welcome to reality, folks. Sure, its a valid theory.

Is the US interested in democracy in the Arab world? I doubt it. The US is interested in its own best interests. We need not look all the way back to WWII for examples of this. Take Chile, for instance. Chile WAS the oldest democracy in Latin America until the Chilean people made the mistake of electing President Salvadore Allende, a communist. The CIA then took charge of Chilean political affairs and assasinated Allende. So much for democracy in Chile.

I don't see how anyone can be so innocent as to think that all we care about is Arab "democracy." What we want is to secure our supply of petroleum, bottom line. Hiroshima was a pragmatic sacrifice of Japanese civilians over a protacted battle from island to island; jungle to street. Either way, we would have won. We chose the most efficient manner of victory.

We will never win the "hearts and minds" of the Muslim world. If we were smart, what we would do in Iraq is to start driving the people out into central Asia. The Chinese would take little pleasure at the sudden influx of Muslim refugees into their sphere of influence. They would send out their army to dispatch the problem. We could wring our hands over Chinese atrocities and laugh all the way to the oil fields.