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Originally posted by KRL
Why should we leave Iraq? They have tremendous resources, and are the most strategically located country in the Middle East. The people are resourceful, having survived years of repression, and eager to grow and build a new Iraq.
Fuck the UN and world opinion. Let the people of Iraq vote to form their own new government, and also let them vote if they would like to become a commonwealth of the United States. An arrangement like we have with Puerto Rico. They would have autonomy that way, their own popularly elected leaders, plus the advantage of all the resources, investment capital and corporate management the US could provide.
I'd bet they jump on it.
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Don't bet on it
Iraq is still Muslim. I don't see a open democracy there for many years to come. Women are still not allowed to look at a male without their cover and young girls are still being circumsized at many parts of Muslim regions.
It's like going to the USA and telling them that from now on all women should
Wear a cover
be circumsized
Cannot pray and be at the same place like men
That men are superior than them
Take away their driverslicense.
Uhm, I think US women would have a problem with that, now take it the other way around, I think Muslim men would have a problem with their women wanting to be like Western Women. I don't see that happening.