Iraq
Please, enough with this pissing match over whose civil war is the real one. For once, could w all agree on a few basic, incontrovertible facts about the Middle East? How about these:
- Palestine sucks. It may be fun to gloat about it since the U.S. had nothing to do with it, but it still sucks.
- Iraq sucks. It’s less fun for warbloggers to gloat about that, since invading the country and toppling Saddam was supposed to leave a country in its place that didn’t suck, but it still does.
- Iraq sucked in 2003, and for decades before that. During some periods, the U.S. supported the regime to an extent. During most others, it didn’t. But during all of them, it sucked, and there wasn’t a damned thing we could do to change that.
- If we hadn’t invaded Iraq, Iraq would still suck. Probably even more than it does now. All the nastiness that existed before wouldn’t have simply vanished into thin air. Even the Dixie Chicks, for crying out loud, are not ready to make nice. Neither is Ragh(e)ad Hussein, and if her father Saddam and her brothers Qusay and Uday were still around, you can bet your sweet ass they wouldn’t be ready to make nice, either.
- The Middle East sucks. All of it.
- No matter what U.S. foreign policy may be, the entire Middle East will continue to suck, for at least a decade to come, probably three.
- Yes, I know Israel is in the Middle East. It sucks, too. If it weren’t surrounded by a bunch of crazies who want to annihilate it and filled with ’splodeydopes eager to blow themselves up in the process, it wouldn’t suck. By the same token, if your aunt had balls, she’d be your uncle. Gotta take the world the way you find it, so through no fault of its own, Israel sucks, too, and will continue to until the rest of the area is brought under control.
January 7th, 2007 at 9:17 pm
Have you been to Israel? I have. In fact, I have many relatives who live there, including a 103-year-old grandfather.
It really is a beautiful country, with a lot of history and scenery. It is also technologically advanced and you can drink the water and eat the food there without getting sick.
Yeah, I get it that there are a bunch of crazies around who want to blow the place up. It is amazing how a wall has helped keep the “splodeydopes” out. That being said, the place is not a vacation in hell.
January 8th, 2007 at 5:11 pm
“Neither is Ragh(e)ad Hussein…”
Xrlq, racist.
January 8th, 2007 at 6:43 pm
Raj / M. Croche / Clod / DMOE, idiot.
January 8th, 2007 at 7:05 pm
Israel has 1) a viable economy; 2) a democratic political system; 3) historical interest sites; 4) high tech industry 5)attracts many immigrants from around the world. Unfortunately everyone wants them dead. If you can live with that, its a nice place, if not, not.
January 10th, 2007 at 8:54 am
I have been to Israel a few times. It sucked. Its only redeeming quality was of a historical and religious nature, but since that’s the basis for all of the crazies wanting to annihilate it, you’re back to how it sucked.