[Alberta's Child]

Your comment was off base. This has nothing to do with Wilson and doesn't resemble his plan.

You make a very common mistake by breaking history into small, discrete intervals of time when in fact there is a much bigger underlying trend here.

What you are witnessing here is nothing more than the latest phase of an undertaking that began in the 1940s when the U.S. embarked on an effort to relieve Europe's colonial powers of their possessions and establish modern, secular forms of government in these places. It didn't work in Vietnam, and I have no confidence that it is going to work in the Middle East, either.

[Jaysun]

You make a very common mistake by breaking history into small, discrete intervals of time when in fact there is a much bigger underlying trend here.

What you are witnessing here is nothing more than the latest phase of an undertaking that began in the 1940s when the U.S. embarked on an effort to relieve Europe's colonial powers of their possessions and establish modern, secular forms of government in these places. It didn't work in Vietnam, and I have no confidence that it is going to work in the Middle East, either.



No. You make the mistake of trying to link history by very large intervals of time when there is in fact no link. You can't skip over everything from the 1940s and arrive at today and expect me to take you seriously.

What would you have recommended in place of such policies? Please, don't make another lengthy response about how stupid I am because it's starting to piss me off. I'm open to your ideas but if they are only designed to show me how stupid you think I am you can make them in private.

[Alberta's Child]

P.S. At no time on this thread have I ever stated -- or even inferred -- that you are "stupid." In fact, I used the term common mistake in my previous to emphasize that stupidity is not a factor here.