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Why do you think it will or won't? Provide evidence for your beliefs.

2007-04-14 15:02:03 · 22 answers · asked by Jason 4 in Politics & Government Politics

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Shiites and Sunnis have been engaged in 1500 yrs of hatred and animosity over who should have been Mohammeds successor. They were thrown together as a nation by the British 70-odd years ago, as the English were giving up on the notion of empire. Iraqs borders were created arbitrarily and to think Sunnis and Shiites will set aside their hatred and unite around this "nation" is incomparably ignorant.

2007-04-14 15:14:40 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

No, I do not think Iraq will ever become a Pro-American Democracy. I don't think Iraq will ever become a pro-anything democracy.

Iraq has as many, if not more, tribal allegiances than the Americas did when the Spanish, English, French governments staked their governments in America. These countries thought they had conquered the "Natives"; but these tribes have now established "sovereignty", maintain their tribal councils, and have governmental sanctity of their "sovereignty".

American Native tribes control powerful business entities, many of them casinos, throughout the U.S., under minimal interferrence from the U.S. Government. Indian casinos do not operate under the same jurisdiction as Las Vegas or Atlantic City.

I am a member of a Federally-recognized Native American Indian tribe with CEO's, tribal council members, and attorneys who are Harvard and Yale graduates; educated with your tax dollars; determined to "bring down" the "white man".

American Indians do not even support Pro-American Democracy. Why would Iraq support the concept?

2007-04-14 15:29:13 · answer #2 · answered by Baby Poots 6 · 0 0

No chance. The only country close to a democracy in the Middle East is Turkey. Well , even Israel is not a 100% democracy. Now how do you expect, three different people who hate each other to start a democracy? Iraq was put together by the Brits and Churchill had this crazy idea of connecting the oil fields in Kirkuk with the southern ones in Basra. Iraq was destined for trouble from the very beginning.

2007-04-14 15:08:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2 1

I'm not even sure Iraq will remain Iraq. Given the civil unrest and the thousand years of intra-sect fighting, it seems more likely that after some sort of civil war that Iraq will form an uneasy peace by seperating into several nation-states.

It's doubtful that any of these will be thankful to the US, at least not without some serious foriegn policy brown nosing.

Our historical actions in the Middle East have really made us quite unpopular.

~X~

2007-04-14 15:10:31 · answer #4 · answered by X 4 · 0 0

Those two things are contradictory.

In a democracy people would vote to fight their oppressors, those who invade their country and those who steal their land and resources.

Of course, even in America most people want us out of Iraq and the conservatives don't give a fig!

2007-04-14 15:06:50 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

The odds are against it. The majority of people in that country have had a relative killed. Many have lost more than one relative. Some reports indicate as many as one million Iraqis have been killed. There are as many as 2 million that have fled the country and are now refugees in other countries. These people have a whole different mindset than we do. I think revenge is a big part of their culture. If it is, that will be a negative for America for a very long time to come.

2007-04-14 15:07:37 · answer #6 · answered by truth seeker 7 · 1 1

It will take decades, at least.

It took the US most of a century before we became a stable democratic republic. And we had a common starting point and no internal sectarian violence like they have in Iraq.

So, Iraq would need to change the way it's been governed for centuries. Then, form a stable democratic republic where everyone mostly gets along (we barely have that in the US).

And then, in hindsight, they would have to thank the US for everything it did. Which largely depends on who eventually ends up in the majority.

Don't forget. Iran was a pro-American democratic republic until 2005, which it became anti-American in response to US activity in the Middle East.

2007-04-14 15:06:49 · answer #7 · answered by coragryph 7 · 4 3

After the destruction, and death that we have inflicted on the Iraqi people, I don't think so. My reasoning is this, you cannot force democracy on those that do not want it. They will have to form a government that will please the majority of Iraqi or the government will not last. It is none of our business what kind of government that they form either. It really is and should be up to the Iraqi people. .

2007-04-14 15:11:57 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2 0

It could be. The numbers of people who risked their lives and wore their purple fingers proudly believe in it. Unfortunately the people that want it are the ones who are being targeted for violence once they say so. The outside forces at hand, ie insurgients, are giving it's success a run for it's money.

2007-04-14 15:07:32 · answer #9 · answered by Corrine 2 · 0 0

I think Iraq will be a democracy that they have established. I think it will be friendly to the west but will side with those governments in the middle east that are peaceful like they want theirs to be.

2007-04-14 15:06:44 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

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