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Hi there. I'm Aaron Sonnenberg. I work at Blip and live in Greenpoint. You can find me on flickr, twitter or e-mail me at: aaron/at/blip/dot/com

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• Still, a pre-emptive invasion of a country gives one pause. But there is another massive benefit to it. Done right, an invasion would be the single best path to reform the Arab world. The roots of Islamic terror reside in the dysfunctional politics of the region, where failure and repression have produced fundamentalism and violence. For reform to spread, the Arab world needs a success story. It needs one major country that embraces modernity, maintains its identity and inspires the region, just as Japan did for East Asia. Iraq could be that country.

  Invade Iraq, But Bring Friends by Fareed Zakaria

  Well, it didn’t quite work out that way, huh? The article’s subtitled “Bringing down Saddam could end Islamic terror.”

  (via pollexistaken)

  OUCH.

  19 Jun 2009