Toppling Regimes

On December 12, 2006, the Wall Street Journal published an opinion by Robert Tracinski of TIADaily.com. Tracinski wrote, "Since Iran and Syria are the most important source of the chaos in Iraq, then we need to topple those regimes."

Wait a minute! Did we not say if we topple Saddam Hussein and put in a democratic government the middle east will be stable, peaceful and prosperous? And look what a Hell that policy created. Now Mr. Tracinski and the War Street Journal want to topple two more regimes and create two more Hells! After that will they want to topple the regime in Venezuela just because Hugo Chavez does not like President Bush or whoever is the next president? Mr. Tracinski and others who believe we can just pick other people's leaders are like a child that believes in fairy tales. How would Mr. Tracinski feel if the government of Venezuela picked our leaders. We seem to have better relations with those large countries whose leaders we cannot pick.

Mr. Tracinski and those who love war are like a humanitarian with a guillotine. "Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate actions, long persevered in, which they hold to be motivated by high ideals toward virtuous ends." Isabel Patterson "The God of the Machine", 1943
http://www.fee.org/publications/the-freeman/article.asp?aid=38

We have alienated people of many small countries because we placed in power puppet governments that are friendly to the United States. This has often caused resentment by the proletariat and poor, leading to revolutions, because the leaders of those countries were paid by the U. S. indirectly through protection or foreign trade. We helped protect and install the Saudi and Kuwait rulers and watched as they provided us with access to their country's oil while they lived in riches beyond one's wildest dreams, as their people lived in poverty. Now their people want a change. The Saudi rulers want to protect their life styles from the Shiites so they said if the United States pulls out of Iraq the Saudis will help the Sunnis in Iraq.

It's time for the United States to stop meddling in other peoples' governments. The Sunnis and Shiites will stop fighting only after they have satisfied their blood letting. This is what happened in Europe in World War One when ten million white Christian men died for no justifiable reason. The war ended in exhaustion. Sadly, the war in Islam will end the same way.

Bilbo Baggins