Journal aphor's Journal: Reconstructing Iraq 1
Now that it's obvious we don't have WoMD in Iraq, and that G.W. was simply going along with Rumsfeld's fantastic adventure, we have to take full responsibility for the situation. Conceded that our elected officials and their advisory underlings want to set up an arab puppet-state in the Middle East, the devil is in the details, and we still need to know HOW we want them to go about the process.
For sure, it will be a constitutional democracy, but what will be in the articles of incorporation? Limits on the powers of government? Separation of Church and State? Freedom of Speech/Press? Quartering of Soldiers?
Democracy is a big lottery game. What exactly will the rules be? Parliamentary Democracy? Separation of Powers? Pluralist selection? Single Member Districts? What about the districts' boundaries? War debts? Hopefully we should answer these questions with the wisdom of our own experiences.
Well... (Score:2)
You can be pretty sure they won't make that mistake again. After all, the founders of the USA limited government powers, and the government's been chafing against the limits ever since. Here they have a chance to start from scratch. Don't expect the government to be too limited.
I can see that happening. The USA government doesn't seem