SysCrusher-Thanks for your service!
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Originally Posted by bigben2k
Sorry you feel that way.
Bush opened a whole new door with Iraq: if we don't like the way you run your country, we'll turn it upside down for you, no matter what anyone else says. This is progress?!?
I think not...
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I think if you have a dictatorship you are fair game. The fundamental problem with the stand you take is that it views all Nation states having equal sovernty. I think that was fine thinking for the post enlightenment era when democracy was just an experiment, in an obscure country, made up of the world’s bastard children. However, we are now in a new millennium and this system works well. Despite the cynicism we (of representative governments) have about our own politicians we all feel entitled to some very basic freedoms. None of us truly fears that our governments will body snatch us in the middle of the night if we call the President a chucklehead. In some countries (Iraq once was one of them) people live in real physical fear of their government.
Here is a thought on the UN...it is a democratic body which has member states that are run by dictators. These dictators get an equal vote with our representative. The Dictators have no interest in any type of intervention to give their people a representative government.