Making Baby Jesus Cry

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Spanky
T-Rex:

"It's odd that you guys think we should take out Hussein, without regard to the poor prospects for replacing him with someone or something much better, but jump to that line when the subject is Pakistan. If we can install democracy in Iraq, why not Pakistan? Do you think Pakistanis are unready for democracy or something?"

Saddam Hussein was an evil nasty dictator that was against us. He was using all the power of a large state against our interests. In addition, he has a pretty educated population that is not overwhelmingly fundamentalist religious. Prior to his dictatorshiop it was a relatively affluent educated country. So there was a chance that Democracy could be better and not much of a chance of things getting worse. In addition, the majority of the population is Shiite so a government that forms there is unlikely to support Al Queda which hates Shiites as much as it hates the US.

Mushariff is a Pro-American dictator that is helping us on our war on terror. His population is highly uneducated, poor and full of relgious fanatics. If a national election were held a pro Al Queda government might get elected. Pakistan is the perfect example of why you need economic development before democracy. Pakistan needs to develop more economically before it will can establish a stable democracy. If it goes democratic before economic development is will probably just become a theocratic state.

2. if we're going to throw out a government it doesn't make sense for it to be one that supports us. that what the Dems do. wasn't ditching the shah the most ShapeShifteryTM of all Carter's bonehead moves? I mean the houses the guy builds probably have terribly thought out flow and feng shui, you know?

Ty and them act like there aren't sides here. "the guy who was going to blow up a mom and kids on the bus did this, so our only response if that...."

They don't get this is war not crime. Doesn't matter really. i mean its about as relevant as what is (not was, is) the Whig party position on free trade?