madame_zora
Sexy Member
If you are reasoning from the postulate that the world doesn't actually have a problem with homicidal Islam, then the war against such must indeed seem like a put-on, a mask to obfuscate encroaching tyranny or a plot to enrich Halliburton, whichever you prefer. Then of course you'll be clueless as to the point of the Iraq experiment, and you reach the desired result - it's all Chimpy McHalliburton-Hitler Bush's fault.
If, however, you think that just possibly radical Islam is indeed up to its old intolerant religious tricks (not for the first time, of course), and using its few strengths to take advantage of the many chinks in the armor of liberal society - in other words, that we're in the middle of a good old medieval-style religious war, like it or not - then the war against terrorism is obviously real. In that context, Iraq makes perfect sense. In fact, it's brilliant, if you grasp some of the basic strategy. And the only tyranny to beware of is creeping socialism and mindless PC-ism, which we'd have with or without the September attacks.
Whether the US is heading for disaster is, to a large degree, a matter of definition. I think it might be, but not the disaster you're probably thinking of.
Wow, we agree more than I would have thought. Because I'm not stark raving insane, but just rude, I don't think we are the policemen of the world, or the world's religious differences. It's just none of our God damned business.
Enter Halliburton, whose profiteering is undeniable, except to the daft.