I just saw the final overs of a match thought to be seeming insignificant. Quite contrary to expectations Ireland beat the might of England (in cricket). This wasn't the way I thought this post would start.
Well, while reading the newspaper today, I realised that it had been almost eight years since the US forces attacked Iraq. It was their war against dictatorship and they thought themselves the messiahs of democracy ( Who cares if the ulterior motive was well, Oil ? ). Then this thought struck me, what if there had been no war on Iraq ? If the people had been so distraught in their homeland, they would have surely revolted last month, inspired by Tunisia and Egypt. They would have started their own Satyagrah, would have become their own messiahs of democracy.
My argument is seemingly insignificant today in that war torn country, just as are now the predictions of the many gurus of cricket who would have been sure that the match would go England's way.
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Nice thought about Iraq. That might have happened, if US didn't invade. But let's see if there will come a democracy in other countries as quickly as in Egypt.
Just to extend your thought-provoking speculations further, would Saddam Hussain have done something along the lines of this? -- http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/how-to-lose-a-country-gracefully-88794
Nice read. And I did think of the same thing as Onkar, things would've been as bad as what they were in Egypt, I have a feeling Saddam wouldn't have quit as nicely.
There's nothing pure in USA's motives here, it is the same old story, where emperors go on conquering more land, just that here the reason is either energy, or establishing a base in another continent.
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