http://www.saysuncle.com/2006/01/10/brady_in_iraq/ Remember, I do this to entertain me... not you. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:05:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.saysuncle.com/2006/01/10/brady_in_iraq/comment-page-1/#comment-46246 Manish Tue, 10 Jan 2006 23:30:13 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/archives/2006/01/10/brady_in_iraq/#comment-46246 I would argue that in essence, this is the hubris that got us into the mess in the first place. The basic premise that government can control what people want is faulty. Gun control bills fail because the government thinks that making a law will make it so. The same held true for prohibition and the drug war. By extension, bush & co. thought that Iraq would become a flourishing peaceful democracy just because they wanted it to. I would argue that in essence, this is the hubris that got us into the mess in the first place. The basic premise that government can control what people want is faulty. Gun control bills fail because the government thinks that making a law will make it so. The same held true for prohibition and the drug war. By extension, bush & co. thought that Iraq would become a flourishing peaceful democracy just because they wanted it to.

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