REAL PURPOSE OF IRAQ INVASION MUCH DEEPER THAN WSJ EDITORIAL

Steven Den Beste of USS Clueless wrote a very interesting piece in the WSJ on 7/24. I think he hit a very good point regarding our real purpose in invading Iraq, but I don't think he went deep enough. Den Beste:

The real reason we went into Iraq was precisely to "nation build": to create a secularized, liberated, cosmopolitan society in a core Arab nation. To create a place where Arabs were free and safe and unafraid and happy and successful and not ruled by corrupt monarchs or brutal dictators. This would demonstrate to the other people in the Arab and Muslim worlds that they can succeed, but only if they abandon those political, cultural and religious chains that are holding them back. (emphasis mine)

We are bringing reform to Iraq out of narrow self-interest. We have to foster reform in the Arab/Muslim world because it's the only real way in the long run to make them stop trying to kill us.

OK, but I think it goes much deeper. Without a doubt the two main sources of active Islamoterror are Iran and Syria, with a weak and threatened royal family government of Saudi Arabia funding everything and spreading Wahbism, seated just below. We have stepped between Iran and Syria. We stand to destroy both . I think destruction of both governments was the deep purpose of taking Iraq. Iran is very likely to give us a cause for actively intervening in their internal affairs. Our deeper purpose is to create this cause and we do it by "creating a secularized, liberated, cosmopolitan society " in Iraq. Each day that Iraq grows is a threat to both Iran and Syria. And a menace to the Saudi family. We can imagine a free Iraq with an army trained by us and with our weapons.

Ha.

The real problem in all this is that in election after election the fundamentalist Muslims win. Does anybody doubt that if an election were held in Saudi Arabia that the Wahabis would win? What we really need to do is change, or cause to change, the Wahabi influence which has spread to South East Asia, India, Pakistan, and could be taking hold in Turkey. I wrote a piece about our atheist elites and that by definition people who don't believe in God are hostile to the concept of a God centered life anywhere. We are faced by 1.8 billion people who believe in God, who actually pray to God five times per day each and every day. We have a major political party that is actively engaged in stamping out religion in our own country.

In my opinion a secular democracy has very little chance of staying in power in Iraq. Our elite leadership's hostility and contempt for those who believe in God is going to trap us. The Democrats will win eventually. They will always say that a government based on religion (except for the PC Jewish religion) is bad, run by stupid people not worthy of our respect. The ACLU will win here at home, succeed in stamping out all vestiges of religion, and give the future to the Muslims. Read my post, the stats on the rise of religion are beyond challenge.