Quote Originally Posted by ermitonto
Well, I for one think freedom is meaningless without equality. Freedom isn't just the right to put a check mark on a ballot every few years. Part of freedom is the freedom from other people's religious tenets being imposed on you.
Exactly erimonto! You hit the nail on the head. "Part of freedom is the freedom from other people's religious tenets being imposed on you." Part of freedom is also not having other people's values and belief systems forced on you. Iraq is 95%+ Muslim, they have their own religous tenets, values, and beleifs. I agree that freedom is meaningless without equality. But that is what we, as Americans believe. If it is not what they believe, however, and we try to impose our values on them, as logical as they may seem to us, are we not guilty of the very thing we are trying to prevent??