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Originally posted by 12clicks
wow, your elementary school day runs long.
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...and many here appear to think we are smarter and more civilized than the Iraqis
Most people are indians, not chiefs. That's the nature of things, programmed into our genes. We couldn't survive as communal beings otherwise.
The difference between a dictatorship and a democracy is that the average dictator doesn't inspire too much warmth and fuzziness. And that's all.
Whatever the system, there are a few privileged people at the top of the pile while everyone else enjoys a more or less well-padded treadmill. Not all dictators haul people away in the middle of the night and democracy is no guarantee of civil rights.
Anyhow, what does any of this have to do with Iraq? 60% of the country is Shi'ite Moslem, their spiritual home Iran. Surely no-one imagines that US foreign policy has really done a 180 degree turn and now wants to unite two countries it has spent the last 50 years keeping apart?
The best the Iraqis will get is a puppet government. Whether that happens and how long it might last, is anyone's guess.