03.07.06
bye bye baghdad
let’s see:
- days after it was lifted, a daytime curfew has been re-imposed
- mosques are regularly being bombed
- Shia and Sunni are killing each other in the streets
- despite the best U.S. generated spin, Iraq seems poised at the brink of civil war
despite the hype of having brought "democracy" to Iraq, things are in many ways much worse for the average Iraqi citizen than before the ameriKKKan invasion, and the ouster of Saddam Hussein.
It turns out that liberal democracy can’t be forced at the barrel of a gun any more than socialist revolution. Neither Leninist-style coups nor preemptive wars can force societies to mature before their time. If anything, the Iraq debacle shows there are no short cuts to "the end of history." Francis Fukuyama, author "The End of History and the Last Man"
This is not to defend the Husseini regime, or imply that they were better off with him… but… it’s difficult to pretend that things have gotten better… the infrastructure – clean water, 24/7 electricity — have yet to be restored… and the widespread level of violence is worse than anything experienced during the brutal dictator’s regime…
it appears that, among ameriKKKa’s many miscalculations in this "pre-emptive war on terrorism to find non-existent WMDs and make the mid-East safe for western exploitation" was the role the deposed dictator’s regime played in keeping these various factions off of each others’ throats… having created, in essence, a power vacuum, we offer nothing in its place save empty platitudes, and appear to have no solution to preventing the civil war which looms imminent…
the risk that Iraq posed to the rest of the world is apparently not the only thing we got wrong: it seems we gave absolutely no consideration to the risk our so-called "liberation" posed to the lives of the average "Iraqi on the street"…
which begs the question: we know what we liberated them from… but, what exactly did we liberate them for???