Reply #9: "... there is a certain amount of modern industry, [View All]

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technology, and sophistication that is required to reach the level of "western democracy" "


You do realize, Middle Easterners drive western vehicles to malls and talk on cell phones all day, right? Iraq's rubble is not indicative of the way all Arabs live.

Edited to add: It is not a cultural deficit or lack of technology that keeps the region in conflict. It is extremism on all sides. Every successful government in the Middle East has to control the extremist element within their borders with an iron hand. Our own government is now being run into the ground by a psychopath who claims to have found Jesus in the bowl of a coke spoon and is spreading his twisted idea of freedom wherever he can do so at gunpoint.

Please do not confuse what's been presented to Iraq with democracy.