The Boondocks by Aaron McGruder for November 08, 2010

Actually, pb, in much of Iraq, those facilities you mentioned (electricity, clean water, medical facilites) are much better than when we arrived (I’ve been there, not parroting someone else’s word for it). The biggest problem remains in the “Sunni Triangle” wherein Saddam’s supporters and al-Qaeda sympathizers hold significant sway (Nearly al-Qaeda members are Sunni). The problem with that is the government supported in Iraq by the US is predominately Shia, and the Sunnis (and al-Qaeda) see them as a puppet regime to which they are not willing to give up their power very easily. Add to that, the fact that Iran’s Government and most of its population are also Shia, so the US can hardly work to cede power back to the Sunnis (of which Saddam was one) without also offending Iran even more, and causing even more unrest in that area. As for Afghanistan, I can make no comment, not having served there.

As for China perhaps coming in to clean up our country, if they did so under the aegis of the United Nations, to depose a despotic, murderous, dictator who with his sons terrorized the population of this nation, along with waging numerous wars on neighboring countries, and then left us to self-govern, I probably wouldn’t fight against them when they landed. If their intentions or actions proved contrary to those goals, I’d fight to my last breath against them, but then, I’m not one of those who is endowed with political power I want to hold onto.