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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Sol System: [QB] And why exactly should your average Iraqi want a "western frame of mind?" Indeed, that's the one export that part of the world finds the most dangerous. Of course, one can have a wealthy, industrialized or post-industrialized society minus much of the western value set. Take Singapore. Or, increasingly, China. But Iraq has spent at least the last decade watching its infrastructure rot away. It doesn't even have tank or airplane factories that can be retooled for Volkswagons or Segways because it bought all its tanks and airplanes from elsewhere. (Note, I don't know for sure that Iraq lacks any military manufacturers, but I am willing to bet that, if there are any, and they are stills standing, they are exceedingly insignificant.) Nor does it have vast quantities of oil money saved up to pay for a bootstrapping program ala Dubai, as, again for at least the past decade, Iraq hasn't been selling large quantities of oil, and what it has been selling has either been under the limitations of the oil for food program, or sold on the black market, the profits pocketed by Hussein. Setting up Iraq as a bright beacon of the New World Order is an idea that's neato to the max, and worth working towards, but I'm having trouble imagining a more difficult foreign policy task. Except maybe doing the same for Afghanistan. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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