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@Typo-MAGAshiv That neocon hybris was pretty much the same hybris as the libtards, just directed in the opposite direction. They did the same with Afghanistan too but in that case they threw away less administrative infrastructure before building a house of shit that fell the moment they walked away.
They really thought western culture was the best model of culture and that because of this everyone would want it for the benefits it brought. They failed to see that it was only possible in a prosperous largely law abiding society where political institutions had gradually been built into the culture and where there were not large armed ethnic groups who wanted to kill each other.
Once again -retards!
Should have read Machiavelli to start. An organised state is harder to conquer but easy to govern -you just tell the existing infrastructure it has new management. a chaotic state is easy to conquer (you turn up and rag heads run to the mountains) but its harder to govern because you have to build the entire administrative infrastructure. nihil novi est sub sole. Empire works the way it always has done.
Iraq should have been administered through rewarding the existing administration for cooperating and selling out, even if they were filthy pederasts. Afghanistan should have been governed by establishing forts, selecting a "client king" who was actually locally popular not some guy who had no local social capital and then making sure he was just strong enough to rule but not strong enough to rebel (like the Romans did with Herod) for example. Herod was by all estimations a piece of shit of the first order but like Saddam, he held his province together by being a piece of shit that belonged to Rome. It takes a few generations in the local cemeteries before you pacify a province. Those lands should have been held and administered for the wealth of the US and its allies -as empires do. To hand them back to opportunists and bandits pissed int he face of the men who worked to conquer them.
Empire is not all fluffy bunnies but if you don't do it someone else will be sure.
Read More@First-light to be faaaair, neocons such as Dubya had the hubris to try to install a democracy in Iraq after removing Saddam.
I hadn't even finished my first tour there in 2005-06 when a bunch of us realized "these people don't want democracy, and they needed Saddam!"
For all that I still think that knowing only what we knew at the time, Saddam needed to go, he was unique in being able to keep order and stability in such a shithole. Too bad he had ambitions for conquering the rest of the Middle East, and refused to abide by the terms of his 1991 surrender.
Nanny state is the best way to describe it
That was the term I was trying to recall last night. Too tired, too drunk, and too much on my mind lol
But yes, exactly that and for the reasons you said
@Typo-MAGAshiv I think the Nanny state is the best way to describe it. The state baby sits you. It does not love you like your mother would, it does not build you up to be strong and free like your father would , it manages you.
@Typo-MAGAshiv Furthermore, those who do want it, want it for themselves and their people, not to give away to strangers.
It was only when the western liberals thought they had ended history, that they were bigger than nature, that they came up with such hybris as to think they could change what it meant to be human, vesting virtue in the government, making charity a right and extending rights beyond the group to other groups with other interests. Retards.
Western culture has been a big hit around the world and the other nations have so taken it to heart that they will surely adopt our position on things.
Some things have to be learned the hard way.
Arab Muslims don't want democracy (or anything close to it) or freedom.
Most of the world doesn't.
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