tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2660027112573057110.post564033725263115855..comments2024-01-17T00:50:59.507-08:00Comments on The Encyclopedia Of Decency: Alternative IraqMalky Muscularhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12239599055237749201noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2660027112573057110.post-46118705505938644662008-04-04T10:17:00.000-07:002008-04-04T10:17:00.000-07:00Details may be sketchy for lesser Decentists, but ...Details may be sketchy for lesser Decentists, but Christopher Hitchens has specific knowledge of what would have happened in Alternative Iraq. <BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110004903" REL="nofollow">Here</A> he revealed that the Hussein family "were preparing the conditions for a Hobbesian state of affairs" by inciting sectarianism and — most shocking to liberal interventionist eyes — "looting and beggaring the country".<BR/><BR/>The state was, in fact, bound for "implosion", which "would have created a black hole, sucking in rival and neighboring powers, tempting them with opportunist interventions and encouraging them to find ethnic and confessional proxies". It's scarcely imaginable, but apparently, "[t]he place would certainly have become a playground for every kind of nihilist and fundamentalist."<BR/><BR/>Fortunately America non-opportunistically intervened and, without relying on ethnic and confessional proxies, ensured that "[a]ll of this was, only just, averted" — except in Fallujah, which, er, just goes to show what would have happened in Alternative Iraq.<BR/><BR/>Anyway, it's important to keep in mind that the invasion prevented looting, beggaring, regional power interventions and sectarian violence, among other horrors. Always remember that Iraq was <I>only just</I> prevented from becoming a playground for fundamentalists. And we also prevented terrorism, as evidenced by <A HREF="http://www.liberalavenger.com/2005/07/i-will-open-can-of-whupass-on.html" REL="nofollow">terrorism happening</A>.StuartAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15192313098450851705noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2660027112573057110.post-86117357761845183842008-03-15T05:17:00.000-07:002008-03-15T05:17:00.000-07:00This might have served as a better illustration<A HREF="http://www.postmodern.com/~fi/morbid/brueghel_triumph-of-death.jpg" REL="nofollow">This</A> might have served as a better illustrationejhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01582272075999298935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2660027112573057110.post-72283684478401266972008-03-14T10:54:00.000-07:002008-03-14T10:54:00.000-07:00Possibly too some coverage of the Decents' denunci...Possibly too some coverage of the Decents' denunciation of the religious-inspired death cult and its anti-Chinese violence of the last week?ejhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01582272075999298935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2660027112573057110.post-40411115611620436152008-03-14T02:04:00.000-07:002008-03-14T02:04:00.000-07:00Jolly good. Keep up the good work. How many parall...Jolly good. Keep up the good work. How many parallel universes do we have now? <BR/><BR/>Could I suggest an encyclopedia entry on "Failed States"? Although the invasion has turned Iraq into a failed state (by all the definitions of the term) no "serious" commentator would say so. Meanwhile various Republicans have described Afghanistan under the Taliban and Pakistan pre-1999 as "failed states". Obviously this is a very useful rhetorcial prop that needs to be included in the dictionary. <BR/><BR/>GuanoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com