Subj : Iraq and Democracy
To   : All
From : Daemon
Date : Fri Oct 14 2005 23:14:00

  Here's a pretty central-to-the-point reason why Democracy will fail in Iraq:

http://tinyurl.com/daets

  ...as a few of us have been pointing out since before the invasion even
began.

  Beyond the scope of the article, also remember that Iraqi women, according to
firm cultural mores, are liable to cast their votes according to the
instruction of their husbands.  And their husbands to the heirarchy above THEM,
etc.

  Democracy in motion in Iraq, without the hovering military presence of the US
pointing guns at everyone not acting Western-like, will be collective movement
to return to exactly the same kind of governmental structure they had before,
ultimately with a dictatorship or, at the least, warlord-style rule.

  This is precisely WHY Democracy can't be delivered at the tip of a cruise
missile; it HAS to grow from within a culture.  In this way, it's the natural
extention OF the culture as an intellectual and social appendage that has the
potential for growth.

  The way GWB has attempted to do it in Iraq is exactly AGAINST the culture,
forcing it back on itself in a way that challenges their religious and familial
world-view.  It WILL snap back to where it belongs and, ironically, it looks
like it'll use the democratic process itself t do it.  (And probably provide
the media with a 24-hour coverage opportunity of Sunni genocide along the way,
leaving the NEW old religio-political-social structure more fundamentally
whacko than ever before for having been given the chance to purify itself
along the way.)

  It just can't work, without supplanting the most basic traditions and values
of the people there, forcing them to abandon themselves and become something
they're not and have no intention of becoming.

  The idea of freedom, in a simplistic sense, is a great gift to think you can
just hand-out freely.  But in the end, guess what?  Iraqis are going to
exercise that freedom to BE THEMSELVES, and that's a culture NOT predicated on
the most basic and fundamental principle of any democratic system: individual
sovereignty and liberty for all.

  It's a culture historically and unswervingly predicated on exactly the
opposite.



       [daemon]                 
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