Reply #13: "only the most naive". Aside from the screwups running the show from DC [View All]

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who was naive? I would say that its the guy who says that the crap now is somehow proof that things are on the road to a democratic state. Problem is, there isn't any evidence it is a road to a democratic state. Roads to civil war and roads to another Saddam all have the sort of violence, civil strife, economic failure, and lack of functioning institutions we see today.

You aren't evaluating Iraq. You are finding reasons not to, or to ignore the current events, by writing it off as a "few months" (aren't we completing the second year?) and saying that we have to wait three to ten years, another completely bullshit number. What's magic about three years, or ten years? It's as if all good things come with the mere passage of time. Talk about naive.