Top Ten Wrong Ideas
Over at Diplomad, there is a must-read list of "Top Ten Wrong Ideas that People Around the World Still Believe." Go read it, it is priceless! My favorites excerpted below.
4) You can't make a country democratic by force. This is anti-Americanism
and anti-Iraq-invasion thinking mixed with historic amnesia. The Brits conquered
India and left it democratic. We bombed Germany and Japan to smithereens,
occupied them by force and left them democratic. We invaded and occupied
Afghanistan and it's on the way to being democratic. We have a better than even
chance of doing the same with Iraq.
5) The United Nations is the hope for the future of mankind,and its
corollary, if we didn't have the UN we'd have to invent it. If this is true,
mankind has a bleak future. Anybody with an IQ larger than his shoe size
(American shoe size) knows that trusting the UN with our hopes for the future is
wrong; we have seen this day after day. But this idea is still out there, and
accepted as politically correct and believable by large swaths of countries.
It's the official line of the whole European Union, which is frightening, since
some of those countries individually are good allies and have intelligent people
who should know better.
