No Democracy Without Security

“Impose Security, Not Democracy”

The greatest mistake Bush and his band of bunglers made, aside from invading Iraq in the first place, was to assume that they could impose American style democracy on a Muslim country without security, infrastructure or an economy. The United States, with all our economic and military might has difficulty maintaining our democratic principles at times. If George W. Bush ever read the Koran (or anything else for that matter), he would have known that the Muslim religion actually prohibits a democratic way of life. When Bush insists that Iraq will be a model of democracy in the Middle East, it infuriates all segments of the Iraqi population, and has been the major reason that security has not been established after five plus long years of spilling our precious blood and treasure there. The same holds true for Afghanistan, which was the right war to fight, except that Bush fought it to get Osama, and then left before the mission was “accomplished” to vent his blood lust for nation building toward Iraq.

The Iraqi government has one purpose: ethnic cleansing. No matter how long America stays in Iraq, the day we leave the Shia majority will shut the Sunni minority out. This is already evident in Baghdad where entire neighborhoods have been “cleansed” of Sunni’s. It is the reason that Bush is claiming his “surge” has reduced sectarian violence in the capital city. Iraq has been in a civil war for a thousand years and will continue to be at war until the people decide that they want peace and security. Then and only then can any form of democratic government be born and possibly survive. Even George Bush saying it cannot make it so.

By:

Henry A. Lowenstein