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Originally Posted by flstf
I mostly agree with your assessment of the terrorist situation as described above. I hope that the sacrifices our troops and their families are making are not being done in vain.
I fear that people indoctrinated as you describe, once they have some sort of democracy, may well vote themselves back an Islamic dictatorship and we (and they) will be right back where we started.
How to win the hearts and minds will be the long term goal. Perhaps if they stay free enough for long enough and are exposed to uncensored news they will at least not think of us as the great satin that must be destroyed at all costs.
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While this is always a possibility, Iraq does have the advantage of being a secular state to start with, and the results of the general election in this regard are promising. The key will be getting the Iraqi education system up to some sort of acceptable standard. Education, particularly history education in the arab world is carefully distorted and designed to keep the people hating the west, and celebrating the concept of islamic governments. I posted excessively on this in the past, though the posts are long buried.