> Iraqis suffer from contaminated drinking water, inadequate hospitals,power cuts and funding shortage
22 April 2005, 05:40
Right wing morons love to point out WWII and Japan and Germany. What they don’t understand is that those countries were given massive support for rebuilding, including a complete revamping of the governmental systems of both countries. In Japan, for example, MacArthur started a process of returning land ownership back to the peasants. We also recognized that the former regimes of both countries could serve their countries well. We didn’t depose the emperor in Japan. We worked with him. Likewise, in Germany, we often found ourselves working with former Nazis. We understood the benefit of socialism to devastated economies. After all, after WWII it was with the Roosevelt administration—even after he had died—that we were able to build these countries again—a government that iniitiated a series of reforms that Republicans have systematically attempted to dismantle over the years. We had more boots on the ground in those countries. We were able to secure the peace. All of this is so obvious to anyone who has read Machiavelli’s The Prince, for example. Every mistake that could be made in Iraq has been made. Read the first few chapters of The Prince and you will understand this for yourself. The war in Iraq is not Germany or Japan. It is a colonial war with a religion and culture that we have little understanding or tolerance for. The problem with Republicans these days is that they have abandoned reason for belief. You can hope that Iraq turns out the way you want all you want, but the reality in Iraq is quite different from your set of beliefs. The right wing just may devastate this earth in the pursuit of their wild hopes.
Right wing morons love to point out WWII and Japan and Germany. What they don’t understand is that those countries were given massive support for rebuilding, including a complete revamping of the governmental systems of both countries. In Japan, for example, MacArthur started a process of returning land ownership back to the peasants. We also recognized that the former regimes of both countries could serve their countries well. We didn’t depose the emperor in Japan. We worked with him. Likewise, in Germany, we often found ourselves working with former Nazis. We understood the benefit of socialism to devastated economies. After all, after WWII it was with the Roosevelt administration—even after he had died—that we were able to build these countries again—a government that iniitiated a series of reforms that Republicans have systematically attempted to dismantle over the years. We had more boots on the ground in those countries. We were able to secure the peace. All of this is so obvious to anyone who has read Machiavelli’s The Prince, for example. Every mistake that could be made in Iraq has been made. Read the first few chapters of The Prince and you will understand this for yourself. The war in Iraq is not Germany or Japan. It is a colonial war with a religion and culture that we have little understanding or tolerance for. The problem with Republicans these days is that they have abandoned reason for belief. You can hope that Iraq turns out the way you want all you want, but the reality in Iraq is quite different from your set of beliefs. The right wing just may devastate this earth in the pursuit of their wild hopes.