From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Apr 10 2003 - 23:45:40 MDT
--- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> wrote:
>
> And while I don't share his pessimism, I certainly do agree with his
> concern that the present idiot-in-chief isn't ready to handle
> success.
> However I believe, and hope, that wiser minds can prevail and turn
> our symbolic victory today into something real and long-term.
I'd pit any one of Bush's crew against the entire combined IQ of the
anti-war Hollywoodites.
>
> In particular, I'm glad the Brits are there. They might have a bad
> record as imperialist dogs, but right now that's what Iraq needs:
> someone who is experienced in bringing order to a conquered people.
> Hopefully they are now enlightened enough to then give them their
> independence without the need of a revolution.
British experience in bringing order to conquered people usually
involved lots of executions, imprisonments, and forced exile. They used
to like the raping, but that petered out when they started liking their
own subalterns bums more. (speaking, of course, as the descendant of
transportees)
I don't think that experience would carry over very well to the present
age when the arab world finds 1000 civilian deaths 'excessive'.
I beleive that the enlightened liberals in both the US State Department
and the British Foreign Office will find excuses to continue on with
social engineering experiments and UN horse puckey till the cows come
home. If we instead make it an abbreviated version of MacArthurs
governorship of Japan, with a rapid establishment of a domestic native
government, as Bush seems to want, I think the peace can only be lost
if the Iraqi people themselves are determined to lose it.
=====
Mike Lorrey
"Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
- Gen. John Stark
"Pacifists are Objectively Pro-Fascist." - George Orwell
"Treason doth never Prosper. What is the Reason?
For if it Prosper, none Dare call it Treason..." - Ovid
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