Oh and for Wiley, history has shown in general that democratic nations tend not to attack one another. If you bust up the center of the Arab world with a democratic nation, you could potentially have a more far reaching peace. This is why I believed in the effort. As it stands there is only one democracy in the Middle East.
I'm glad you put the disclaimer "in general". Off the top of my head we've interfered with Democratically elected governments in Chile and Nicaragua. If we're so peaceful why are we constantly waging war? Why do we spend more than all other countries in the world combined on our military?
Wasn't Hitler democratically elected?
The fact is we are an empire and act like all other empires before us. Waging war around the world in an attempt to show others how much better our way of life would be. The only big difference is other empires collect tributes from their newly conquered lands. We don't. But our will end as all others. Debasing our currency in an attempt to pay for all the folly, leading to ruin. All else is noise (imho).
Bagdad has been invaded so many times by people who had the answers its incredible. Each one grew tired of the expense and eventually left. We will too.
