The spread of American culture and values to Iraq

[Dinner]

Have they? I wouldn't be surprised if a few prostitutes ahve been making cash (that always happens when armies move) but my friends' e-mails haven't mentioned anything about fralocking sex parties of the type which occured when Paris was liberated.

[Bereta_Eder]

Banging is a metaphor for other activities as well.

[Dinner]

[Bereta_Eder]

:shrugs:

[GePap]

This is neither here or there...on one side, certainly an example of greater freedoms but as MtG said, it is also great material for the social conservatives to use..at best, they will only reach Pat robertson levels and not Khomeini levels.

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Japher
Mom and Pop, though need the subsidies.

And we Europeans suck badly as the EU subsidizes corporations more than Mom and Pop

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Oerdin
With luck we can addict the male population of Iraq to porn and liquor so that when the Imams come to take their porn from them they will resist.

This is exactly what I'm hoping for

[GePap]

Originally posted by Spiffor

This is exactly what I'm hoping for

It's not like that has worked in the US.

[Japher]

It's not like that has worked in the US

You want to see my hard drive? Or know why I have a second fridge?

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by Oerdin
To be fair the Shah also had the nasty little habit of having political prisioners tortured and executed. This tends to rile up the natives.

And how many rulers in the mideast, going back to, say... Hammurabi, haven't had that sort of nasty little habit?

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by GePap
It's not like that has worked in the US.

Your social conservatives can't even hope to ban porn and booze now. The day marijuana (sp?) will be legalised, there will be no coming back as well.
Your social conservatives sure may cry, and they sure may still exist and be noisy, but they'll only be effective on very few topics of the everyday life. Except if the average American is able to stop watching porn and drinking booze in order to feel closer to Jesus

[GePap]

The only thing that keeps the social conservatives from tryin is that darned annoyong constitution..the geenral publci would not for a second oppose a significant ban on porn, in the name of the children..booze, not, but porn...the day people don;t switch the channel in shame, or get their videos but make sure a fake billing reason appears on thei credit report is the day Social conservatives failed.

[Dinner]

And how many rulers in the mideast, going back to, say... Hammurabi, haven't had that sort of nasty little habit?

Point taken.

[LordVipper]

drugs to follow? macdonalds? homeless people? missionaries? cnn? democracy at its best.

[Japher]

dead ppl? repression/oppresion? lack of personal freedoms? facism at it's best.