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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: quehubo who wrote (137104)6/19/2004 10:34:17 PM
From: GST  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
<Enabling the Iraqi's to be free> The US failure in Iraq stems in part from a key weakness in US political culture: the idea that democracy is primarily about the pursuit of freedom. Bush assumes that Iraqi's want and need freedom first and foremost. The belief is so strong that it is not even questioned by most Americans. But it is not want Iraqi's want. It is not what people in most other democratic countries want. What Iraqi's want is peace, order and good government. The US has shown itself to be incapable of grasping this flaw in our understanding of other people, and has shown itself to be incapable of delivering what people really want in Iraq. Instead what people in Iraq have is chaos, violence and incompetent government -- plus a whole lot of drivel about "freedom".
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