Once a distant, mysterious land, the U.S. has become intensely embroiled in Middle Eastern politics. While simultaneously waging campaigns in both Afghanistan and Iraq, America has turned a wary eye to Iran and its alleged nuclear weapons. With the lives of potentially thousands of soldiers and citizens at stake in both countries, should the U.S. take direct military action against Iran?
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We Must Create the Condition for Iranians to Win Their Own Future
- From Heritage Foundation
By Heritage Foundation - Leadership for America
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Does "Creating conditions" mean "Democracy"?
I'm curious what is meant by the phrase "create the conditions for Iranians to win their own future?" This sounds much like the Bush doctrine of trying to spread "democracy" throughout the world, for altruistic purposes, without the fundamental ideas necessary to guarantee individual rights. Democracy, without individual rights, is just majority rule at the expense of the individual.
What ideas would the US fight for while trying to create said conditions? What fundamental principles would we call on to battle the virulent totalitarian Islamist ideology? "Self-determined democracy" is not such a principle. All one has to do is look at the precarious situation in Turkey, where the Islamists are gaining ground, threatening to overthrow the secular state in a fully "democratic" manner. Is a violent Islamist regime OK because the people voted for it? Need I bring up how the Nazis came to power?
- C August
August 21, 2008 9:14AM
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