I have to agree with Aether here.
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Originally Posted by Ranger
US patience is not infinite. We have given them the opportunity and the resources and the tools to make it work, but if they won't take advantage of that opportunity themselves then the US will have to pull out and leave them to deal with their problems themselves, sooner or later here. It's only a matter of time - the clock is ticking and time is running out for them.
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You've given them a shitload of metal from above, and the resources are in American hands at the moment, right?
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It's up to them, now. Only they can truly save themselves from themselves. We can't do that for them. And their time is running out fast. Faster than they think, if you believe the polls over here right now.
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Who will save them and us from the USA?
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The Iraqi's themselves need to "get real" with regards to our actual legal liabilities in this matter. We have none. The Iraqi's themselves will have to pay the lion's share of the costs for the consequences of their own military and political foolishness themselves.
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Whose military and political foolishness was it again that led to the current situation?
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The Iraqi's should also be thankful that we don't just adopt a "winner takes all" attitude and make Iraq the 51st State of the USA. That's what winners used to do. They truly owned the countries they conquered, in the literal sense. The people of the conquered country had no rights of any sort. They became the "property" of the victor, to do with as they pleased.
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So this is how the "defender of freedom, peace and democracy" should implement it's values? Attack anyone it likes and then do whatever it wants with them? You can just decide which country you would like to have as your property next and then take it?
"Because we can" is a lousy reason for a civilised country to act this way.