You couldn’t be more wrong.
First, it hasn’t been decades, only 4 years.
The Bush administration is the first western government to attempt to plant the seeds of consensual government amongst the Arabs.
You don’t even know what government of the people, by the people, for the people means if you mistake it with the direct or indirect colonialism used on the ME by Western governments for the last several centuries.
Because you are clueless about what you are seeing in Iraq, you don’t realize that Iraq is well on it’s way to being the first Arab ‘Democracy’. Don’t let the tribal base fool you.
Western ‘Democracies’ (I’m using ‘democracy’ to indicate ANY type of government by consensus or representation) are rooted in the feudal system and the holding of land. That is the way Western civilization evolved. Arabic civilization has nomadic roots and is based on herds and flocks, not direct ownership of land.
Western Democracy is geographical, with snout counting done by where the snout lives.
It would make sense for an Arab democracy to count snouts by tribe, not residence.
Westerners associate by village, even though the village have grown huge.
Arabs associate by tribe, even through the tribes have grown huge.
Bicameral legislative bodies are the most effective form of democracy so it wouldn’t surprise me to see Iraq evolve into a ‘lower house’ with the representatives selected by vote among the tribes, while a ‘hose of lords’ formed from the most prominent members of the tribes acts as a Senate.
The Iraqi’s as a group are smart people, like the rest of the Arabs. Given a chance, they will work it out. America’s part in this process is to buy them the time they need to work it out. We will buy them that time.
We won’t quit. That is why America is the World’s Hyperpower. Why it is an American flag hanging in the near vacumn of the Moon’s surface, why American robots are working on Mars and dropping bombs on the Jihadists. Why citizens of Japan, S, Korea, and South America can vote for their leadership. I could also include most of Europe in that list.
WE don’t quit when the going gets tough.
That fact will be driven home again this November.
You are correct about the UN needing to be replaced. Big Mac’s idea is just one of several. I like this one;
http://www.ccd21.org/
I like it because it’s NOT American. The Poles started it and that should make it better, since the Polish have struggled for a long time to rule their own lives. Now they do and they have lesson to pass on. I also like it because the Department of State hates it. IMHO, there is no higher recommendation.
