CAN IRAQ BECOME A DEMOCRACY?
Our own population would not accept the U.S. Constitution in its entirety if put to a vote today.

My premise for doubt is that most people in almost every country would rather not make most decisions about their own lives. They would much rather be told what to do, what to choose, and how to act by some "Higher Power". That "Higher Power" can be government, Allah or God, or the police. All they know is that they just want to be "taken care of" and they don't want to "think" too much. Thinking is too much work. You can be wrong if you think. Nobody likes to be wrong. Dumb people are always wrong.

Real Democracy is emotional, not intellectual. Jefferson, Burke, Plato, and all the rest mean nothing to most people, they cannot understand what these philosophers and intellects wrote, and are too lazy to try to understand them, discuss them, or think about them. People will take a sentence like "All men are entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness..." and say they want it. but they will never work to achieve the type of society that will embrace the concept. Ten to one that 90% of the Chinese population don't give a rats ass about the students who died in Tiananmen Square. It would be their view that the students got what they had coming for thinking they were better than everybody else. People have a gut dislike and resentment toward those who think and act on their own thoughts.

We need no further proof of this thesis than segments of our own society. We are communicating over the Internet right now but most people can't or won't utilize this tool. Most will just "read" whatever they want (pornography is their overwhelming choice) and just let it go. Curious of nothing higher than their collective penis wanting nothing more than instant gratification.

We have an Entitlement Class that just wants their government hand outs and will support nothing that interferes with this process. That means that all people on Social Security, Welfare, most students at most universities and their faculties, and all who work in any government entity don't want a system of choices and rewards. They just want a subsidy with no evaluation of their input or "eligibility" (means test, grades, physical condition, or results).

The people in our own society who actually take advantage of all our freedoms represent a very small portion of the overall population. Poll after poll indicates huge majorities of people would eliminate those portions of the Bill of Rights and portions of our Constitution that inconvenience them. In other words, We would reject our own freedoms.

So why do you think Iraqis want them?

The Iraqi people have had 30 years of being "taken care of". Housing, medical care, food, and income was "handled". All you had to do was go along. Most of the population went along just as most of the population of Germany went along with Hitler until it didn't pay to do so; til their country had been destroyed. One need to look no further than East Germany today. Communism was good to them. They were taken care of. They didn't pay the price of disagreeing. Everything was OK. They demand the Welfare State.

I sincerely doubt that more than ten percent of Iraqi people want to think about anything. They don't know what thinking is, what having choices is, what being "free" means. The concepts are from Mars. I don't think they want it and what they will end up with is another Islamic State dominated by Mullahs, Imams, and enforcers of "Shiria Law".

That's how this will end.