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Originally posted by Gattigap
OK. Which does, indeed, bring us back to Wonk's question. If we can conclude from these polls that the entire group is to blame, and it's Us vs. Them, please share your solution.
Would it be modern-day internment? Mass forced emigration to the Middle East? Simple extermination? Anyone who holds a Koran will do?
American Muslims too, or just the Brits? Do we wait until a Pew poll shows similar evil thoughts lurking in the minds of American citizens before we begin?
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The long term "solution" (which is a terrible word choice, given history's use of that term) is to attempt to change the incredibly fucked up thinking of a large majority of Arabs. The only possible way I see this happening is to give them an alternative to what they currently have, and the only realistic alternative that I see is democracy. I don't mean democracy in the sense of free elections only, but far more importantly is free thought. Democracy, however, is a pre-condition to free thought. Which is a long way of saying that, regardless of the WMD question, I support the toppling of Saddam and our efforts to establish a democracy in the heart of the middle east.
The effort will take time (not years, but decades, probably a generation, but I don't believe there is any other alternative.
The DEMs offer what? A pull out of Iraq? I don't fault them for wanting us out of Iraq. I want us out of Iraq too. But then what? Back to the status quo pre-Saddam? What is the long term alternative?
