Awesome; the 2008 CIA Factbook is out.
Iran's median age (pretty much the average age) is 26.4 years old. That is freaking young! That place must would be fun to visit, assuming you die. U.S. median age is 36.7. So, we are about 10 years older on average, making them that much more volatile and stubborn. WAIT, Iraq's median is 20.2 years! Also, Iran and Iraq have about the same life expentancy; about 70 years. Perhaps a democracy in Iran would have been the better way to go before the disaster in Iraq.
How many 20.2 year-olds that you know would say.... give up their favorite table at their favorite restaurant to a bunch of rich foreigners. They make their way in and start to critique even your food, telling you that you could have it so much better; "Here's some of our food. Would you like some? No? Well, I'm sorry I asked because you're going to have to eat it." A fight breaks out. 12 Iraqs die for every one US death.
You see, America is promoting democracy through pseudo-imperialism. It is very hard to do this in a world so well-connected and well-informed. Maybe we should have imagined WMDs in Iran instead of Iraq. Perhaps they would have been more manageable and then we could have taken Iraq 10 or 20 years later. Not that I would want that, but it'd been better than the way things are now. Now, I swim.
You see, America is promoting democracy through pseudo-imperialism. It is very hard to do this in a world so well-connected and well-informed. Maybe we should have imagined WMDs in Iran instead of Iraq. Perhaps they would have been more manageable and then we could have taken Iraq 10 or 20 years later. Not that I would want that, but it'd been better than the way things are now. Now, I swim.
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