Talk:Michael Kelly (editor)
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"Tyranny truly is a horror: an immense, endlessly bloody, endlessly painful, endlessly varied, endless crime against not humanity in the abstract but a lot of humans in the flesh. It is, as Orwell wrote, a jackboot forever stomping on a human face. I understand why some dislike the idea, and fear the ramifications of, America as a liberator. But I do not understand why they do not see that anything is better than life with your face under the boot. And that any rescue of a people under the boot (be they Afghan, Kuwaiti or Iraqi) is something to be desired. Even if the rescue is less than perfectly realized. Even if the rescuer is a great, overmuscled, bossy, selfish oaf. Or would you, for yourself, choose the boot?" (2003-02-26)
When I visited the Middle East this year (2006) I did get various Iraqis and one Kurd tell me they loved George Bush because he helped them. So the above passage is definitely true, from the point of view of the oppressed being liberated. Whether or not it's sound US foreign policy is another question of course. Raylopez99 23:39, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
