Originally Posted by mixedmedia

Of course, I can't read minds, but I can read between the lines. I believe it has been our intention from the outset to impose democracy (albeit successfully) on a middle eastern nation with the assumption that the desire for democracy in the middle east would snowball into a regional democratic renaissance. This is not in and of itself a bad thing. After years of contemplating the implications of "globalization," I've come to the conclusion that consumer-driven societies in which most people have jobs and at least the prospect of one's children having more opportunities than their parents is far preferable to having bands of disenfranchised young men available to those who would try to profit from the contrivances of chaotic hopelessness. We see this happen everywhere there is a lack of opportunity for young men. Even here in the states. But I digress again...