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Originally posted by theknife
the Arab cultures are tribal in nature, rife with severe ethnic and religious stratifications. Islam, which, by definition, represses women and chokes free speech, is simply not compatible with democracy.
what you and the administration don't seem to grasp is that, for whatever reasons, unlike the Germans and Japanese, the Arab nations are decades behind the rest of the world in human development. democracy works nowhere in the Middle East and there is absolutely no comparable historical precedent to suggest it will succeed in Iraq.
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tens of thousand of iraqis filled the streets of baghdad to demand free and direct elections this year for a representative national assembly. those demonstrations were driven by the energy of a people eager for freedom to take root.
when asked to choose the form of government iraq needed now, 90% of those interviewed, in their own homes, said an iraqi democracy. they overwhelmingly rejected the idea that democracy was only for westerners and would not work in Iraq.
since you seem to know better, maybe you could go over there and inform them different.