“The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of ‘liberalism’ they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.”

Socialist Party presidential candidate Norman Thomas


Friday, February 25, 2011

Why are Iraqis demonstrating?

Why are the Iraqis agitating against their government?

From Yahoo -- Protesters chant anti-Iraqi government slogans during a protest at Tahrir Square in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Feb. 25, 2011. Hundreds of demonstrators converged on central Baghdad as part of an anti-government rally inspired by uprisings across the Middle East and dubbed the 'Day of Rage.

Did we or did we not just set up for them a representative democracy? Iraq has the form of government already that the rest of the middle east is clamoring for. Or is it that they just want to get in on the protests?

I think this just goes to show that, with the exception of Israel, the primitive cultures across the middle east cannot appreciate the complexity, delicacy, and effort it takes to sustain a functioning representative democracy. The government we set up will fall and our efforts there will have been for nothing.

2 comments:

David said...

I hate to believe this but I think your second paragraph sums this up accurately.

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