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**lammaredder** · 02-24-2011, 03:27 PM

I'm only half serious, but you have to wonder if there might be a connection. Granted it's been a long time but things there have started to improve. The only reason I bring it up is for all the people that laughed for a month when it was suggested back then that bringing Democracy to Iraq might eventually lead to it spreading in the region. Just because you don't see a real connection does not mean it doesn't exist.

The same could be said for any number of other connections, like a connection between eating tuna fish salad and increased fertility, or any other unestablished correlation you care to name. It's going to need some positive evidence. If anything, the lesson of Iraq would be that dictators can be removed by overwhelming military force from a Western power, which is precisely the opposite of what happened in Tunisia and Egypt (and appears to be happening in Libya, albeit in a messier way).

02-24-2011, 03:27 PM	#5
lammaredder Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 405 Senior Member	I'm only half serious, but you have to wonder if there might be a connection. Granted it's been a long time but things there have started to improve. The only reason I bring it up is for all the people that laughed for a month when it was suggested back then that bringing Democracy to Iraq might eventually lead to it spreading in the region. Just because you don't see a real connection does not mean it doesn't exist. The same could be said for any number of other connections, like a connection between eating tuna fish salad and increased fertility, or any other unestablished correlation you care to name. It's going to need some positive evidence. If anything, the lesson of Iraq would be that dictators can be removed by overwhelming military force from a Western power, which is precisely the opposite of what happened in Tunisia and Egypt (and appears to be happening in Libya, albeit in a messier way).
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