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**HilaryNidierer** · 10-25-2011, 06:53 PM

Well democracy in the Arab World is messy. Iraq has the same problem. You really don't know what you are going to get do you?

But the difference is its' not up to us to chose what Libyan democracy will look like. In Iraq-we had this moronic assumption that we could invade and dictate what their government would look like. Conservatives always argued to me that an Arab style democracy was preferable to Saddam Hussein. And then they looked at me with blank stares when I read them the part of the Iraqi Constitution that requires that all Iraqi laws respect sharia law. We'll have to see what emerges in Libya. If sharia law is what they chose, that's something we have no control over. But as long as they confront extremism in their country, that is really all we can hope for.

The bottom line is Obama followed the correct policy as far as the US interests were concerned. The Libyan people rose up legitimately and without any coaxing from Western powers. NATO, and the US got involved when there was a legitimate civil war and international consensus to get involved-including Arab consensus. We didn't lose a single American life. Gaddafi is now gone. All this nonsense from the GOP about "leading from behind" was total anti Obama horse manure. The policy was clearly a success.

Also; The objective of American foreign policy should only be to preserve and protect the United States of America … that is the sole purpose. It is not to embrace some ideological false utopia called ‘the democracy movement’ in countries that have NO history of democracy or anything that even resembles democracy.

Revolution for revolutions sake isn’t in the best interest of America and our idiots in DC have no understanding of the Middle East and the history. You can not project and impose, on a society, that has thousands of years of tyranny, a democratic system. Since the Arab spring, in any Arab country; have you seen anything that represents democracy?

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HilaryNidierer Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 424 Senior Member	Well democracy in the Arab World is messy. Iraq has the same problem. You really don't know what you are going to get do you? But the difference is its' not up to us to chose what Libyan democracy will look like. In Iraq-we had this moronic assumption that we could invade and dictate what their government would look like. Conservatives always argued to me that an Arab style democracy was preferable to Saddam Hussein. And then they looked at me with blank stares when I read them the part of the Iraqi Constitution that requires that all Iraqi laws respect sharia law. We'll have to see what emerges in Libya. If sharia law is what they chose, that's something we have no control over. But as long as they confront extremism in their country, that is really all we can hope for. The bottom line is Obama followed the correct policy as far as the US interests were concerned. The Libyan people rose up legitimately and without any coaxing from Western powers. NATO, and the US got involved when there was a legitimate civil war and international consensus to get involved-including Arab consensus. We didn't lose a single American life. Gaddafi is now gone. All this nonsense from the GOP about "leading from behind" was total anti Obama horse manure. The policy was clearly a success. Also; The objective of American foreign policy should only be to preserve and protect the United States of America … that is the sole purpose. It is not to embrace some ideological false utopia called ‘the democracy movement’ in countries that have NO history of democracy or anything that even resembles democracy. Revolution for revolutions sake isn’t in the best interest of America and our idiots in DC have no understanding of the Middle East and the history. You can not project and impose, on a society, that has thousands of years of tyranny, a democratic system. Since the Arab spring, in any Arab country; have you seen anything that represents democracy?
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