Why Are We In Iraq?- by Justin Raimondo
As Shi’ite party militias roam the ruins of Iraq’s cities killing and beating political dissidents, and whipping women who fail to wear the requisite head-to-toe chador, our “democracy”-crazed neocons cite the country as a “model” – and look forward to the “liberation” of the rest of the Middle East along similar lines. The world seen through the prism of neoconservatism is truly a Bizarro World, where everything is stood on its head, not just physical laws but also traditional moral precepts as well as the rules of logic.
Americans are naturally repulsed by the sight of what the Busheviks have wrought in Iraq, but the alternative is not to turn around and make war on the Shi’ite-Kurdish tyranny we made possible in the first place. A war along those lines would be an act of such incredible hubris that it would make our prior mistakes – beginning with the invasion of Iraq – seem almost benign.
It’s time to face up to the horrific reality: there are places on this earth that in no way resemble the cultural and political landscape of the U.S., and nothing we do will turn Iraq into a suburb of the American metropolis. Short of wiping out a good portion of the population and imprisoning most of the rest in “reeducation” camps where they’ll be forced to memorize Robert’s Rules of Order and the aphorisms of Emily Post, it simply cannot be done.
Read the full article here, and reclaim the reality of what has happened, and is happening in Iraq.