RE: War on Iraq……Northern Iraq…..OIL RICH!!!
[updated:LAST EDITED ON 29-12-02 AT 10:53 PM (GMT)]Actually liberalism as it was meant to be has never existed. The founder of the modern liberalism, Adam Smith, 18th century (wealth of nations) would probably disgust from the thing we like to call free-market-economy in the west. Face it, the state is protecting its economy now more than ever (we would even go to war for it, which is as extremist as going to war for a god, like the crusades). This has nothing to do with the private vices, public benefits – philosophy from the 18th century.
Europe and the US have very little in common with the original ideas of liberalism and democracy. In fact, democracy and liberalism are even contradictions. Democracy is based on platonism, which is about the opposite of the utilitarism, from which liberalism was created.
The west shares a lot more I think with the ideas of Marx and Nietzsche. The idea of an Uebermensch (or Ueber-society like we think of ourselves in the west), taken from Nietzsche. Or with the materialistic society created by Marx.
‘Don’t worry. Iraq will not be a soverign nation for long.’
Even if Saddam will be replaced by a new leader (maybe Bush still has a nephew who could apply for this job, just like the old days), Iraq must continue to exist as one country, maybe a different structure. Turkey will never accept a free Kurdish state on its southern border. Breaking up Iraq would end up in Iran becoming more powerfull in the region. And Israel for instance said a couple of months ago that Iran was of a much bigger concern for them than Iraq.
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