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Originally Posted by Griff
Semantics. We killed their people and broke their country. We have some good news don't ruin it with self-deception.
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*nods* We helped them tear down one brand of tyranny and then allowed another to rise in its place. In Saddam's Iraq you could die for many things. Political activism, trade unionism, being in the wrong place at the wrong time, being Kurdish. Rarely did people die for being un-Islamic. Rarely were women dragged from the streets and beaten for an accidental breach of some extremist sect's own conception of Islamic dress code.
In large sections of Iraq women are living amidst a Taliban-style gender panic. Fury and fear of female licentiousness.
To butcher a Franz Fanon quote: wars of national survival increase the central authority of the father within society.
Defeat in war is the ultimate emasculation. The response is rarely pleasant for the female half of the population.