Posted by
Mick O. on Thursday, September 20, 2007 9:51:01 AM
Any time I hear someone put forth the argument that Iraq should be divided into 3 states for each of the main tribes there, I have to laugh. (See Thomas Sowell's article here) The statement that 3 fundamentally different peoples can never live together in peace and you have to divide them up into different territories is ludicrous. If you don't believe me, look at the US.
True we are considered a melting pot, and the nation's founders intended it to be that way. But most of the people living here now know very little about our history thanks to the wonderful public school system. A deep respect for a love of nation is not what keeps the peace.
My point is this. Freedom and economic prosperity have enabled the people in this country to live to together peacefully for hundreds of years, though they differ in cultures, religions and backgrounds.
In my opinion, that is the hope for the middle east which is woefully behind the rest of the world; held back by the likes of dictators and mullahs who keep their peoples in a third world existence.
Bring forth a little capitalism and you will see a new Iraq, peaceful and prosperous. Our founding fathers understood that "yearning to be free" is a human condition not limited to the United States. And that is Bush's vision, right or wrong. |