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Posted - 2008.04.25 07:50:00 -
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 Originally by: Christopher Scott
I think that, overall, going into Iraq was the right thing to.
nobody cares about right and wrong when the metric is power and those with the means do and define sucess
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What I don't like, is how our current administration completely lied about WHY we were going into Iraq.
what incentive does any government have to tell the truth? Ever? if the planners imagine themselves as masters of the universe with broad visions (hallucinations) of national destruction and reconstruction, doesn't it logically follow that they see it fit to manage their own people as well?
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You know why? Because, believe it or not, USA had a good track record for rebuilding countries.
Look at Germany.
Look at Europe.
Look at Japan.
People forget about that portion of USA history. Iraq could have developed ten times faster than Japan, with a incredibly booming economy, and they would be an amazing beacon to the rest of the middle east... if our current administration didn't royally f*** everything up so badly. Think about that.
The pre-reconstruction period for Germany was at least two or more years in the works, I don't know how long the CPA or its earlier variation, the office of reconstruction, took to plan, but I doubt it was even half a year. Anyway I think you're ultimately wrong about those countries as well, the American program was to create democratic (read American business and diplomatically friendly) states. Did the Marshall plan ameliorate financial crises? No doubt, but the current administration has signed off on the atlantic alliances and the very ideas enshrined in rebuilding Europe. Whether or not they internally talk about europe in terms of "old europe" is another question but it reflects how the attitude to European alliances has changed. Given how eager American administrations like to re-use the language of "****** revisited" and other such symbolism demonstrates how profoundly solipsistic the American foreign policy and cultural imagination has become, enamored by the technology of smart weapons but terribly weak in terms of human intelligence and political-cultural understanding.
The Japan example is telling too as the very instrumentality of American intervention, article 9, represents the subterranean beginnings for Japanese normalization and remilitarization. Todays washington would in their eagerness to counter the "rising China" welcome such a rearmament.
It seems so strange that Macarthur was ruined for suggesting nuclear escalation in Asia by Truman, could you imagine the same today? If anything the planners today are more eager than ever to radically redefine the American idea.
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Here's to hoping we get something much better on '08, although I am not very optimistic. 
to quote mcain, bomb bomb bomb iran
since afghanistan is the new forgotten war, the new Korea, the possibilities for foreign policy distraction, to escape the specter of Vietnam and doomed American occupation, are endless
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