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Originally Posted by smallstar  Cheers,
The occupation of Iraq was quite an opposite example to that. How could they ever think that the country could retain stability after all existing power structures had been destroyed, and after the leaders had been made into martyrs?. |
idealogy maketh fools of us all
the neocon's embraced Fukiyama's "end of history' thesis- long after he even disowned it (basically - if you spread democracy all problems would be solved and borders would dissolve and we'd all be one happy family.
not the first time it's happened and unfortunately, not the last.