Saturday, September 29, 2007

Difficulty of a new Iraq democray

The invasion on May 20, 2003, launched the Iraq War, which is still ongoing. U.S. President George W. Bush declared the objective of the invasion was "to disarm Iraq of ,WWD, to end Saddam Hussein's support for terrorsim, and to free the Iraqi people.
The American government has promised since the early 1990s to replace a fascist regime run by Saddam Hussein by bringing liberal democracy to Iraq. This promise is the political equivalent of the military claims concerning weapons of mass destruction; that is to say, it has been so often and prominently repeated that, to keep faith with the U.S. government’s word, something in the area of democratic reform must be tried. Moving, therefore, with all deliberate speed, the new American proconsul in Baghdad has recently convened an unofficial meeting of a thirty-five-person Political Advisory Council, a first public step toward some form of democracy in Iraq.
We suggest referring to our previous articles for NMIRI, on May 8, 2003 and June 4, 2003. In those pieces we predicted that a communitarian democracy would be the desired form for governing a country as deeply divided internally as Iraq. We assumed that keeping Iraq intact as a countervailing force against Iran politically and Saudi Arabia economically was the primary American geopolitical goal for the post-war Near East. We see no reason to change our opinion on this matter; indeed, the events of the last five weeks have only confirmed it.
It is hard enough to establish a democracy in our own country let alone another country. But it is very possible, it will be hard but it will be rewarding if we can do it.The hard part on forming a new democracy is trying to make everyone happy. It will never make everyone happy, but your job is to make most happy.