Roma said:
if you remove something that is holding a country in balance or at least way better than it is today then you are the reason for what comes after it. |
Gasing your own citizens is 'way' better? Uday Hussein tortured Iraqi Olypmic athletes for a perceived lack of effort, even keeping scorecards as to whom should get what. Sorry, but I disagree. Democracy is as strong as what the people put into it, and when the army turns tail and runs, giving their weapons to an approaching enemy (smaller force, mind you), that's on the people and the army. Not on the US.
Furthermore, if we had to point fingers at anyone, I'd start with religious moderates. I love the whole 'this isn't islam' line, but...what are 'true' Islamic followers doing to stamp out the violence inflicted upon themselves and others, by the folks twisting the words of Islam? We have the same problem in the US with Christianity/Catholicism. Moderates say one thing, but won't lift a finger (largely) to do anything about the extremists. Leaving the rest of the US or, in Islams case, the world to. Which ends up with the whole 'religious persecution' complex that you see in the US and abroad. War on Islam, War on Christianity etc... Which makes it that much easier for the un-educated and illiterate to be recruited into killing in the name of whatever God they choose to believe in.
