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Originally Posted by wendybeth
However, I fail to see how the Fench involvement in the Revolutionary war compares to this- quite a stretch there, guys. The government of France during the Revolutionary war was still an absolute monarchy, and they were using us every bit as much as we were using them. No ideology at play here at all, gentlemen- just good old fashioned mercenaries.
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So you are saying that because it was a monarchy, it was OK for the French to be involved? Actually, I would think the French citizenry would resent it even more. The were subject to the rule of a king, yet their armed forces were assisting others in getting freedom? Apparently they did - as wendy mentioned - a mere decade later the French monarchy fell.
I would suggest that we are using and being used as well. The Iraqi citizenry does, in fact, wish to be free (more so than the 20-50% of the American colonists that did), and we want democracy to spread throughout the reqion of the middle east for a wide variety of reasons. And yes, one of the goals all along was to establish a democrary in Iraq, as democracies have never been freindly to terrorists, and with a fundtioning democracy in Iraq, it is more likely to spread.
Go ahead, wendy...stay out of the thread....I dare you.
