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Exporting Switzerland,
The model Iraq needs to follow.
National Review Online ^
| 4/23/03
| Jonah Goldberg
Posted on 04/23/2003 2:43:18 PM PDT by Burkeman1
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To: AnalogReigns
I have heard the same things about Switzerland. I bet she is the beneficiary of many American tourists who will avoid France and Germany in the coming summer. But Goldberg is a lune to suggest that we can create such a system in Iraq out of thin air and without massive occupation that includes control of the educational systems and outright dictatorship for several decades.
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posted on
04/24/2003 7:25:33 PM PDT
by
Burkeman1
(B)
To: JohnGalt
Well we are there and we should strive for an "out" that will do the most justice to the Iraqis while minimizing our involvement. I don't have the answer. But Goldberg's flippant, and frankly, silly school boy suggestion that we build a Switz canton system magically is just astounding. Oh really Jonah? Why not do that everywhere? What a genius! If only the British and Russians thought of that! Idiots and half educated dimwits write for NR nowadays.
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posted on
04/24/2003 7:30:58 PM PDT
by
Burkeman1
(B)
To: Polybius
I agree completely with your analysis. And I think we will have to be there a long long time. What I don't like is how conservative critics of this war who said the exact the same thing you just said were attacked with lies by neocons who advocated this war in the first place.
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posted on
04/24/2003 7:35:14 PM PDT
by
Burkeman1
(B)
To: Servant of the Nine
Elections that we so "rigged" that a prime minister was assassinated for not agreeing with the military. Ok.
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posted on
04/24/2003 7:37:30 PM PDT
by
Burkeman1
(B)
To: x
How in the heck do we avoid identifying with one ethnic group? It is my understanding that Sadaam brought in Sunnis into Baghdad to lesson the Shi'te majority. He coralled Shi'tes into squalid quarters in crowed areas of Baghdah and gave property to Sunnis. How do we resolve this one issue? There must be thousands like this all over Iraq.
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posted on
04/24/2003 7:58:46 PM PDT
by
Burkeman1
(B)
To: Burkeman1
Elections that we so "rigged" that a prime minister was assassinated for not agreeing with the military. Ok. No, that was in the 30s. We had nothing to do with it.
So9
To: Servant of the Nine
It was in 1930 and we didn't have anything to do with it.
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posted on
04/24/2003 8:06:23 PM PDT
by
Burkeman1
(B)
To: betty boop
ping ...
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posted on
04/28/2003 6:41:49 AM PDT
by
Phaedrus
To: Phaedrus
Phaedrus, didn't you suggest the Swiss model as the most appropriate model for Iraq a couple weeks back, here at FR? I guess JG must have read your post. :^) Thanks for the ping to an enlightening article!
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posted on
04/28/2003 7:58:57 AM PDT
by
betty boop
(God bless America. God bless our troops.)
To: JohnGalt; billbears; sheltonmac
A golden oldie from the boy genius at NRO.
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05/14/2004 6:35:01 AM PDT
by
Burkeman1
("I said the government can't help you. I didn't say it couldn't hurt you." Chief Wiggam)
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