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Originally Posted by waste gate
Remember, scandium, this article is from 2003. The guy doesn't have the benifit of three years of hindsight. I posted it to give a possible explaination, not neccesssarily the only one, as to what may be happening. The example doesn't apply to the middle east only.
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That only proves that he's one of the delusional neo-conservatives who bought into, hook, line and sinker, their disproven (by facts) "dominoe theory of democracy" in the ME; this was one of the prive motives (long before WMD ever became center stage) of the Iraq war that was pimped by such true-believers as Wolfowitz and Perle, who theorized that if you liberated Iraq, at gun point, the grateful Iraqis would forget the sectarian animosity that only Saddam's police state kept in check, forget the fact that 2 decads ago the US played both sides in the 8 year Iran-Iraq war, forget that only a decade ago the U.S. crushed and humiliated the Iraqi army in the Persian Gulf War, forget that in the aftermath the U.S. encouraged an uprising then merely watched next door in Kuwait while Saddam ruthlessly crushed it, forget the decade of sanctions imposed upon all Iraqis for Saddam's transgressions, and in their "shock and awe" greet their liberators with flowers and candy anyway. And then from that shining example all of the ME dictatorships and theocracies would fall like dominoes to be replaced by Jefforsonian democracy.
By the way I didn't need 3 years of hindsight to know the democracy dominoe theory was bunk or to predict that "Shock and Awe" could have anything other than nasty long term implications given the history and the method. And the same goes for the author's simplistic and ethnocentric "Muslim shame" theory he dreamt up to explain why the dominoe democracy theory would take hold in the ME when it hasn't.