Reply #22: so we should allow Iraq to devolve into a fundamentalist state?

[northzax]

we should allow a minority of armed Iraqis determine the fate of the rest of the country?

Perhaps you are willing to move to Fallujah and don a burka? have your daughters forced to drop out of school at age 8 based on a fucked up reading of a religious text?

oh, that's right, we should have cultural relativism, and allow the few thousand followers of al-Sadr to determine the fate of 25 million iraqis, just as the few thousand followers of Saddam Hussein determined their fate 30 years ago, and the few thousand dedicated followers of the Ayatollah ruined Iran and the few thousand taliban ruined afghanistan (even more than it already was, shockingly)

or do you like al-Sadr, and think clerics should be allowed to use their religious sites to preach violence without repercussions? What is one of Pat Robertson's followers takes him literally and goes out and kills a bunch of gay people? and then hides in Robertson's "church"? you support the Reverend's right to incite violence, for whatever ends? and you dare call someone else pathetic.