Re: Why Democracy Will Not Work In Iraq...


deemsbill@xxxxxxx wrote:
> Edward M. Kennedy wrote:
> > <deemsbill@xxxxxxx> wrote
> >
> > >> >> "Akid, who would only give his first name for fear of reprisal, said
> > >> >> his battalion of about 600 men had already suffered over 250 desertions
> > >> >> after a Dec. 3 ambush in Adhaim killed 19 Iraqi soldiers."
> > >> >>
> > >> >> "They gave up," he said. "They said, 'The hell with this.'"
> > >> >>
> > >> >> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051223/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_051223105056
> > >> >>
> > >> >> Dan
> > >> >
> > >> > Kind of sounds like democracy was at work in his battalion.
> > >>
> > >> French democracy.
> > >
> > > French...Arab....is there a difference?
> >
> > Yes. The Arabs fight well enough, it's the technology they
> > lack. The French have the opposite problem.
> >
> > --Tedward
>
> The Arabs have had plenty of technology. They simply suck at the
> soldiering aspects.

The real question is do they care enough to keep the democractic system
that has been offered to them enough that they would give their life
for it. It remains to be seen, but this can't be good.

I have held all along that you can't install a democracy, the people
have to want it, and I'm not so sure that the Iraqi people even
understand the opportunity they are being given. There are no Ben
Franklins, James Madisons or Thomas Jeffersons involved in this new
democracy. Only Ahmed Chalabis.

Dan

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