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posted by [identity profile] mmoa.livejournal.com at 03:46pm on 04/10/2009
Oh thank god - so Hitler wasn't that crazy. Right, so now by my reckoning the Bush administration has the honour of being more crazy than Hitler.

Iraq, as it stands today, should never have existed as one country in the first place.

See, this sort of thing just slays me. I'm not one for trying to undo every bad thing that's been done in the past - that would just make more of a mess. However, understanding past mistakes and situations will help one go about future interference in a relatively mature, sensible and sensitive way. The idea that such a country would somehow 'become like one of us' once the dictator was deposed becomes even more delusional and dangerous, the more I now learn about it.

Thanks, as ever, for the info!
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posted by [identity profile] alagbon.livejournal.com at 12:20am on 05/10/2009
You're welcome!
I also like your point about how democracy imposed from outside isn't as effective. It has to be a process of evolution; like how Marx said Communism would come gradually, and then when it was imposed by revolutionaries on an unprepared country/region it ended up failing spectacularly.
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