"Senior administration officials have acknowledged to me that they are considering alternatives other than democracy. Everybody in the administration is being quite circumspect, but you can sense their own concern that this is drifting away from democracy."
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/17/wo...pagewanted=all
What does it say when the US government is even countenancing such an option?
Tallies nicely with Bush`s recent claptrap doesn`t it?:
"In light of the recent violence in the Middle East, some are questioning whether democracy can take root in the region. I believe that the Iraqi people are showing us their answer. They're making enormous sacrifices to secure their freedom, and they've elected leaders who are making tough decisions."
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/relea.../20060725.html
Guess the plan is to revert to the standard procedure of implanting a client dictatorship. Hey, another Karzai puppet factory a la Afghanistan!
The glorious sentiments of Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson are proving just too much for the Iraqis, or so we're told.
The real story here is that the US initially hoped that such opposition as would appear among Sunnis would be drowned out by the pro-US euphoria among Shi'ites: their strategy from the start was marked by the deepest sectarianism.
This certainly gives a new spin to spreading freedom and democracy...as I said ages ago, the US are not going to win this one.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/17/wo...pagewanted=all
What does it say when the US government is even countenancing such an option?
Tallies nicely with Bush`s recent claptrap doesn`t it?:
"In light of the recent violence in the Middle East, some are questioning whether democracy can take root in the region. I believe that the Iraqi people are showing us their answer. They're making enormous sacrifices to secure their freedom, and they've elected leaders who are making tough decisions."
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/relea.../20060725.html
Guess the plan is to revert to the standard procedure of implanting a client dictatorship. Hey, another Karzai puppet factory a la Afghanistan!
The glorious sentiments of Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson are proving just too much for the Iraqis, or so we're told.
The real story here is that the US initially hoped that such opposition as would appear among Sunnis would be drowned out by the pro-US euphoria among Shi'ites: their strategy from the start was marked by the deepest sectarianism.
This certainly gives a new spin to spreading freedom and democracy...as I said ages ago, the US are not going to win this one.
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