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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (94902)	4/19/2003 3:11:44 PM
From: aladin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

ST, it is very naive and dangerous to think that you can transplant the American value system over there and make it work. It is also arrogant to believe our solutions are the best in the world and others should submit to it for their own good. This is another example of upside down logic. We are not advocating a replica of the United States - there are many forms of democracy. People here barely even understand Parliamentary systems with proportional seating (rather than districts). The 'American' value system you suggest is non-transferable is in fact a collage of the Greek, Roman and British systems. I don't think anyone here would object to the Iraqi's picking something like the Japanese or Italians, our worldwide democracies are all different. Arrogance, in my humble opinion, is assuming that Iraqi's not only cannot craft a democracy, but lack the 'cultural' background to do so. John