| No Brainer here...
a) What you know is from some silly newsdork hiding in the greenzone begging a translater to make sense of a local news channel.
b) Al Jazeera's spin on the situation which is always grounded in....fiction.
c) The ever-knowing Liberal Blogosphere.
which boils down to: You really have no clue what is going on over there.
What can be deduced is that: Moslems are killing Moslems...
(which is a crusader's happy place)
Keep handing out the weapons then...and ignore 95% of the news.
If history is any indicator:
We invade to liberate a people...
We spend years supervising and building infrastructure...
We train the authorities to take over...
We endure climate, bugs, viruses, and ignorant taunts of peasants...
And after spending billions of dollars, we wave goodbye and push the helicopters off the flat-tops.
It would be a nice break from this pattern if we simply handed over the weapons and let them exterminate each other. |