NFBW wrote; Is this Correll in your opinion - an argument in general for starting a war? POST#3373
āEvery ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business.ā POST#3373 (Ledeen Jonah Goldberg Machiavelli)
Correll wrote: No. I disagree with that comment and the world view that it has as a premise. POST#3377
NFBW wrote: Why do you disagree? POST#3398
NFBW wrote: It was Jonah Greenbergās April 2002 dissertation on the neocon argument for starting a war in the crappy little country Iraq to begin the strategic projects of nation building in the strategic Guif Region. POST#3398
NFBW wrote: Here is an excerpt from GOLDBERGās Baghdad Delenda Est, Part Two By JONAH GOLDBERG
April 23, 2002 / NATIONAL REVIEW POST#3398
āāā The most compelling substantive reason, from my point of view, is that Iraq should be a democratic, republican country, with individual rights secured by a liberal constitution.
For part one, click here. During the Cold War, few people said, āWe have to solve the problem of Latvia, before we can even begin to address the problem of the Soviet Union.ā Latviaās problem ā asā¦
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(My preferred governmental model is something along the lines of the Swiss confederation, with Kurds, Shiites, and Arab-Sunnis each having considerable internal autonomy but a shared national government. The country is already split in three parts by the U.S.- and British-imposed no-fly zones anyway. āāā POST#3398