[Vision2020] Saudi Arabia: Free and Fair Elections?

[Tbertruss at aol.com]

DC:

We have military bases there, but we are not "occupying" Germany, Japan or 
Cuba with troops and tanks in their streets.  In South Korea, we have a more 
active military presence, actually guarding a border, but this is with the 
relatively stable South Korean government's permission.

I am pointing out that we could be militarily "occupying" Iraq for decades to 
prevent all hell from breaking loose (as if with us there now all hell is not 
breaking loose!).  I doubt that if we leave the security of Iraq to Iraqis 
that we will see a democratic system emerge.  If we really withdraw and leave 
the country to whatever the Iraqis come up with, we will see a brutal civil war 
or another brutal dictatorship.

Ted Moffett
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