Iraq Made Simple(r)

[xseraphim666]

Amidst all my job hunting and hoping to all hell that the school district will call me up to substitute teach again (& again), I stopped to read an article in Newsweek about "The Most Dangerous Man in Iraq

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[grian_eun]

Nice, I like that plan. I've felt for a while that, judging from past occupations and past world powers, the longer we hold their hands and look over their shoulders, the less likely they are to be able to rule themselves. It's like the kid whose mom wakes him up every morning from kindergarten to high school. He's gotta move out eventually; what does he do when he has to set his own alarm clock and wake up for class or a job? He's screwed for real life, because he never woke up late for 5th grade, thereby learning that he has to get his ass out of bed when the alarm goes off.

Analogy taken from real life: my stepmom woke my brother up every morning he lived in the house. Now he's paying for it at tech school. The long we baby along Iraq, the more of our resources we're going to waste on them because they're not gonna figure it out with our help.

[xseraphim666]

Exactly. Shit, in a few ways, I'll readily admit that I had my hand held too long as a kid and I'm paying for it now. But you wanna know why an idea like this will never come to fruition? Because undoubtedly, we're defending some corporate bigwig's economic interests over there. Namely defense contractors...there's no defense money to be made in a short ousting from power as opposed to a long, drawn-out occupation.

[grian_eun]

It's all about the money. And people wonder why our generation is cynical.