Thursday, December 20, 2007

Imperial Hubris or ....

The United States has gotten a lot of bad press about our invasion of another country. It has been held up as imperial hubris, it has been used to claim aggressiveness, it has been used to show us as acting unilaterally. I don't give a rats......

Iraq is a country, MADE UP OF PEOPLE. We may have done a bad thing at the level of country: thou shall not interfere with another country. But for the PEOPLE....we have done a wonderful thing - even if it has caused much angst. Folks, didn't we 'invade' Indonesia? Sent lots of troops and the Navy? Granted we were not shooting people there, but then, they weren't shooting at us either.

Can something be good for the people of a country, but bad for the 'country'? (which means, bad for it's ruling class?)

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