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March 21, 2003
Gratitude, schmatitude Lot of folks think the people of Iraq should come kiss our feet in gratitude that we've come to liberate them. Matthew Yglesias, for example, was taken aback that Salam, writing from Baghdad, does not particularly favor us bombing the living crap out of his hometown.
Nonetheless, I wouldn't expect somebody on the other end of our guns to just be full of trust, as I wouldn't be real thrilled to have to trust someone not to blow me up.
Furthermore, our government has arguably historically acted in a cavallier manner with the Iraqi public, ignoring their interest and sufferings first by supporting and then by trying to suppress Hussein.
Now, I'm glad of what we're doing in Iraq. It just badly needs doing. Hussein was an evil threat to US and all decent nations. The fact that our government was sponsoring him at one time just makes it that much more our responsibility to deal with him now.
Also, the people of Iraq should be expected to have some serious reservations about US running up in on them like this. We need to prove ourselves to the people of Iraq, to show them that they're not getting screwed in the deal again.
I trust that we will. Of course, that's real easy for me to be all trusting, sitting safe in Indiana. It takes a lot more trust to trust someone with your life, which is the level of control we're demanding of the Iraqi people.
It might be necessary, and even (by our estimation) in their own best long term interests for us to come take the wheel for a minute. It is not reasonable, however, to expect them to like it.
