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Lastly, having lost a formerly useful puppet, the Bill Maher Method would have the USA replacing him with a right wing dictator and give him the muscle to wipe out their enemies in his midst.
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I've never been clear on what constitutes a right wing versus a left wing dictator - political leanings lose meaning to me in the absence of politics. As for being the right way to go, it would depend on your goal. I would imagine dictators would be far more successful in rooting out terrorism than fledgling US sponsored 'democracies' - I can't help but think of Rummy's quote that Iraq wouldn't elect a guy like Osama once they were 'educated'. Seems to me that the current US method is a brilliant way to manufacture terrorists for the foreseeable future by installing secular democracies that will be unable to hold any real power if they go along with what the US wants. In other words, I don't think a true democracy in Iraq would be palatable to US interests if the election was really democratic b/c I don't think the majority of Iraqi's are pro-US. The US really have put themselves between a rock and a hard place in this one.
For example, what does the US do if a hard-line cleric runs for office and wins in a landslide? Do they stay, clean up the mess they made, spend billions and politely accept their pfo letter? I think there is a potentially mistaken belief in the US gov't that people in Iraq really do want a western style society - what if they really do want something like Taliban-lite?