An Abyss Called Iraq - by Thaddeus Gadfly
"I'm going to dare to proclaim the unthinkable: Democracy isn't for every country. My reasoning is that when a nation whose people are so divisive and uncivilized they must war with each other, with little hope of factions learning to coexist peacefully, as evidenced by history, what hope does such a nation have on the immediate horizon for democracy to take root? Can democracy be a viable system in such a country? I realize it is an American ideal to think that all countries deserve democracy, but, after this Iraq debacle, I’m not so sure. Maybe they do, maybe they don't."
"Spreading democracy at the barrel of gun is a policy we should abandon, and one that I believe is un-American in the first place. There are no meters or instruments to help us measure and make such an evaluation; we must study the history of the region in question. Bush, I fear, made no such serious study. Bush has made a blunder of a magnitude the likes of which our country has never experienced."
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