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To: aladin who wrote (95004)	4/19/2003 3:34:24 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Respond to of 281500

This day is shaping up a lot better than I thought...I find myself again in perfect agreement with "the other side" <g>. My point was that many concepts which have worked well here, such as separation of church and state and the rights of women, cannot be directly transplanted there. Those who would push for western style feminist movements in Iraq or feel that Billy G has every right to preach in Baghdad, will be doing more damage to their cause and to the stability of Iraq than the militant Islamists. > Arrogance, in my humble opinion, is assuming that Iraqi's not only cannot craft a democracy, but lack the 'cultural' background to do so. I agree so very much with this. I think we can and we should guide the process. But the final choice must be made by the Iraqis themselves. ST

To: aladin who wrote (95004)	4/19/2003 3:41:04 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

>>The 'American' value system you suggest is non-transferable is in fact a collage of the Greek, Roman and British systems.<< Also Native American (I've posted before about the contributions of Native American law to the US constitution). Also, when you say "Greek, Roman and British," that includes, but does not recognize, the contributions that the Greeks and Romans borrowed from the Middle East and Far East, while leaving out the contributions that Europe borrowed from the Arabs and Turks. >>Among the laws contained in the Code of Hammurabi [Iraq], the Gentoo Code [India], and the Institutes of Menu [India], which have come down to us from antiquity, and antedate the foundation of the Eternal City [Rome] by hundreds of centuries, are to be found many precepts and formulas identical in purport and expression with those scattered throughout the treatises of Roman jurisprudence.<< constitution.org