Nothing like having someone else supply you the opportunity for liberty.
Iraqi People need to finish throwing off the chains of tyranny. The biggest disappointment for me is that the Iraqi people haven't stepped up. At some point, and I base this on not only our history (in getting away from Geo. III), but many other places as well, France, Russia, et al., the People end up taking responsibility for themselves and rise up. At some point, they look around and see the things happening on TV or listening on the radio or viewing pictures or reading newspapers and pamphlets that life doesn't have to mean living in mud huts while the emperor sports new clothes. At some point, everywhere, people discover liberty and will go to any length to achieve it. Unfortunately, we didn't do a good enough job of showing them that side of what it is we're doing there. They see the violence, not the liberty being offered them. It will take a generation or two or three to get them into the proper reference. It took at least five-years after the end of the Revolutionary War to come to terms with a Constitution. It takes time. Revolution also takes much more than a half-hearted effort. It takes an effort that requires conviction; a conviction I'm not sure they yet have.
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"Liberty for Free" is part of the problem with what is going on there, I think. The U.S. government is "giving" them the opportunity establish a representative government with Western-style liberties. Do they want what we are attempting to give them?
For a large segment of their population, liberty seems to mean the right to establish Islamic law. Or at the very least, the right of one ethnic group to dominate another. How is such an environment conducive to liberty, as you and I understand it?
That's just it, the People need to establish the government they want that allows them the freedom to choose. At this point, it shouldn't be up to us as Americans, it should be the Iraqis doing the dictating to their government. We've given them that chance for change.
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