Yeah, everyone wants democracy. As soon as we get some to spare, maybe we can share.
I'm really appalled that the American government who so scorned Hussein now wants his job and can't even do it as well as he did it. Keeping Iraq together apparently required a savage dictatorship. Democracy only works by consent, and the Iraqi peoples all hate each other.
But, yeah, after having been a military brat most of my childhood, I realize that you can't live in a foreign land without developing either an affinity or a distaste for the people and their culture there and it's more or less mutual. I saw both situations being stationed on foreign military bases.
It's also a failure to see anyone different as an individual. First step in depersonalizing someone enough to hate them is to take away their individuality and refuse to see them that way. :(
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Date: 2007-07-25 08:07 pm (UTC)I'm really appalled that the American government who so scorned Hussein now wants his job and can't even do it as well as he did it. Keeping Iraq together apparently required a savage dictatorship. Democracy only works by consent, and the Iraqi peoples all hate each other.
But, yeah, after having been a military brat most of my childhood, I realize that you can't live in a foreign land without developing either an affinity or a distaste for the people and their culture there and it's more or less mutual. I saw both situations being stationed on foreign military bases.
It's also a failure to see anyone different as an individual. First step in depersonalizing someone enough to hate them is to take away their individuality and refuse to see them that way. :(