Amritas doubts the ability of Iraqis to maintain democracy. I have my doubts too. Having said that, I fully support Bush’s actions in Iraq. Has he made mistakes? Probably. But I don’t know what they are – hindsight is twenty/twenty, and we don’t have it yet. I don’t think that the lessons of Israel in Lebanon are completely applicable in Iraq. The biggest difference is that the US is A LOT more powerful than Israel.
I don’t know whether the US will be successful in creating a democratic Iraq, but I think it would be immoral, given the position that the US is in, not to try. And I’m sure that Iraq will end up being better for it, whatever that may mean.
Posted by David Boxenhorn at July 3, 2004 10:23 PM