RIGHT! Uh, fool, if the Iraqis wanted to get along, don't you think they would've figured out how to manage that in the course of several hundred years?
Also, hello, who ever suggested that Middle Eastern nations -- Iraq or anybody else -- wanted democracy in the first place? We see how well that's going for Israel, and that's a nation that's about 1/3 populated by expatriate Germans and Americans! And one of the basic premises of Islam is Sharia; Islamic law is unavoidably religious in character, and therefore has fundamental biases that conflict with democratic ideology. If anyone in the American government made even the slightest effort to understand Islamic beliefs and culture OR Middle Eastern history, we wouldn't be in this mess in the first place. /rant
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Date: 2007-01-13 09:26 pm (UTC)Also, hello, who ever suggested that Middle Eastern nations -- Iraq or anybody else -- wanted democracy in the first place? We see how well that's going for Israel, and that's a nation that's about 1/3 populated by expatriate Germans and Americans! And one of the basic premises of Islam is Sharia; Islamic law is unavoidably religious in character, and therefore has fundamental biases that conflict with democratic ideology. If anyone in the American government made even the slightest effort to understand Islamic beliefs and culture OR Middle Eastern history, we wouldn't be in this mess in the first place. /rant