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Originally posted by KRL
Nobody seems to see the underlying agenda here. We're bringing democracy and US control to the Middle East. One of the main reasons the resentment is there is because all the corrupt kingdoms / dictatorships will be threatened politically.
You think the House of Saud (aka Saudi Arabia) wants to see democracy move in next door?
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Bringing Democracy to the Middle East is certainly a high ideal. But really, given the US's dismal history at engineering puppet governments and fledgling democracies, what are the odds we're going to be successful this time, in such a hostile cultural and religious environment?
The Bush administration would like you to believe that anti-western leaders like Arafat and Hussein are the problem. They want you to think that if only the yoke of religious tyranny were removed from the citizens of these countries (by gallant Westerners of course), they would shout for joy and jump at the chance to form a US friendly, western democracy.
It is pure, unadulterated bullshit.
Your average Iraqi might not like Saddam, but he doesn't like the United States a whole lot more. Same thing with the Palestinians, 70% of whom support suicide bombers, and the Saudi's.
I think the most we can hope for in this area of the world for now is that the religious governments will slowly become more benevolent, open to the west, secular, and capitalistic.