shakran

I don't think so - well, let me rephrase that. I would hope that the American people are decent enough to not feel that way in 10 years. You see, Iraq was a sovreign country. It was not our property. It was not ours to control. It was not our place, our business, or our right to interfere in the natural evolution of the Iraqi culture.

America has been overly arrogant for decades. We've found a great system of government which works for us, and we therefore have attempted to convert many other countries to that form of government. And when those countries say "we already have a government, thank you anyway" we try to force them to change because their government does not appeal to our lofty visions of how people should live.

We continue to refuse to acknowledge that what works for one group may not work for another group (try forcing the Hells Angels to conform to the ideals of the "Metrosexuals" if you disagree with that premise). We continue to refuse to allow other cultures to choose their own destiny. We continue to force our beliefs on those who don't already share them.

And every time we interfere in something which is not at all our business (vietnam, korea, mogadishu, somalia, cuba, bin laden (don't forget that we armed and trained him), iraq take 1 (when we armed and trained Sadaam's people to fight Iran), and many more) it turns to complete and utter shit on us. Not only do we not accomplish our goals (which are immoral in the first place) but we in fact end up making the world worse than it was before we stuck our nose into it. Despite these repeated failures, we continue to have the pigheaded arrogance to keep trying rather than adopting the far more sensible policy of "look all you like, but don't touch."

Since this president more than any other typifies this misguided attitude, and this president more than any other has not only deceived the american people in order to carry out this attitude, but has demonstrated utter incompetence in accomplishing any of his goals, I feel that eventually the american people will come to regret his presidency more than any other.