Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Vaticinium ex Eventu

Back to the Future: 2003 revisited.

From The Onion:
Democracy cannot possibly thrive under coercion. To take over a country and impose one's own system of government without regard for the people of that country is the very antithesis of democracy. And it is doomed to fail.

From the Trash Talk forum:

That's just awful, but I guarantee that Iraqis will still be much better off for having been liberated. ...

I lay blame firstly on the looters of course--they have no excuse--but secondly on Saddam. The breakdown of social order is a result of a war he made necessary. Order will be restored soon enough with Iraqis policing their own streets.

From FARK:
You anti-war people are still as illogical as ever. We can have peace when the enemies of peace are eliminated. You know, the people who use your idiotic pacifism-at-all-costs to continue their evil?

Boy, are you ever going to look stupid when the Iraqi people dance in the streets, being liberated from that tyrant. And I'm naming names.

From Forumosa:
I don't know when you'll see the light. The US did a good thing. The liberation of Iraq is good, not bad. Yes, there will be many problems... but already the region is undergoing self-reflection... today Jordan's Foeriegn Minister spoke of the need for democratic reforms throughout the region, and for a closure of the information gap and for more tolerence and for more rights for women. This is all part of the plan pushed by that idiot, Bush.
Apostropher:
This is not a winnable war. We will not bring democracy, peace, or any other high-minded ideal to Iraq. We can't even bring water, power, or security reliably. And if we leave now, an all-out civil war will begin. We have taken a country that was marked by organized, psychotic violence and mediocre services and turned it into one marked by chaotic, psychotic violence and close to no services.
From Chewin in the Chung:
No man dies for what he knows is true. Men die for what they want to be
true.

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