Smooth Running Democracies

[piercehawkeye45]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

Countries *hope* they need to be as exploited as South Korea.

Thats why people are blowing our troops up in Iraq?

You are giving the recipe of success for a single type of culture that does not exist all throughout the world. If a country wants to be a free market economic society, then I could care less, but if a country doesn't want to be free market, the US shouldn't play any role in forcing it to become one. From what I've heard, many Iraqis have resisted the free market aspect of the US rebuilding and if we don't respect that, we will have bigger situations in the future. It is their choice, it is not our place to force a country to become free market.

Also, countries can become successful without free market systems so it isn't the only option.