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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I feel like I am talking to a pair of particularly slow kindergarteners in having to say this, but one might use force to stop what is happening at a concentration camp (e.g., Treblinka) without using (more) force to try to change that country's culture.
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The force was used to remove SH and his merry band of brigands. At the time, he WAS the culture of Iraq. Unfortunately, we failed to kill enough of the brigands - the war went too fast. So, we are using additional force to hunt them down. Also unfortunately, another group - the dread Islamacists - share several points of interest with the remaining merry brigands, and so have also moved in. They have joined in with the brigands to attempt a continuation of the Culture of Saddam. So, yes, we are continuing to attempt to change this culture - as a clean-up operation following our initial, most impressive culture change (luv those guided muni's) - and to allow the people to come out of passive slavery and take part in this turnkey op.
(Geez, Ty, you didn't use to be this dense. At Treblinka, the deathcamp theme WAS the culture. In Iraq, the Saddam-rule, with its attendant deaths, ruinations, and cheesy sound effects, WAS the culture. "Culture" means the overall theme of living. We changed it in both countries, by force. A less-than-perfect result would have been just fine in Treblinka, because it left the inhabitants far better off then they were pre-force. Same with Iraq.)
