Our country is rating other countries on the amount of religious freedom that exists in them. First, it's not our job. We can hope that other countries will espouse tolerance, but we should never make any attempt to enforce tolerance. Using a carrot and stick in the effort to coerce other countries to take on our rather liberal view of tolerance is just plain silly and likely to reinforce already widespread resentment of the United States. Your tax money, hard at work....
What do you get when you remove a tyrannical leader (who was supported by the US for years) who maintained an iron grip on his country in the Middle East? Let's hope the CIA's worst predictions don't come true. That article is at the New York Times. You can either register for free or go here for logins from people who have registered bypass accounts. If the first one doesn't work, click the "This login didn't work" button for a different login.
I guess that one of our reasons for going in is scheduled for termination. The Iraq Survey Group is about to release a report saying that we have found no WMD (excluding a decades old sarin shell). I still wonder why we had bio-weapons related material going to Hussein AFTER the first Gulf War...
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