To: jveritas
I am realistic. By the comparison I make between the US Constitution's tribulations in 1787-89 and the Iraqi Constitution today, I am making the same point you did. That, in Franklin's words, this is "the best that can be arrived at" under the circumstances.
John / Billybob
36 posted on
09/21/2005 9:55:24 PM PDT by
Congressman Billybob
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To: Congressman Billybob
So, in summary: some of us agree that it doesn't HAVE to be "perfect." It is already a darn sight better than what came before it. And, frankly, for us to even judge it by the standards of our society is pretty ethnocentric of us.
It has a huge potential to "do good," and it may yet prove to be the start of something big (and positive) in that region.
37 posted on
09/22/2005 9:40:01 PM PDT by
FreeLiability
(Charge Criminals with crimes; Detain indefinitely enemy combatants until the WAR is over.)
To: Congressman Billybob
So, in summary: some of us agree that it doesn't HAVE to be "perfect." It is already a darn sight better than what came before it. And, frankly, for us to even judge it by the standards of our society is pretty ethnocentric of us.
It has a huge potential to "do good," and it may yet prove to be the start of something big (and positive) in that region.
38 posted on
09/22/2005 9:40:16 PM PDT by
FreeLiability
(Charge Criminals with crimes; Detain indefinitely enemy combatants until the WAR is over.)
To: Congressman Billybob
39 posted on
09/22/2005 9:41:09 PM PDT by
FreeLiability
(Charge Criminals with crimes; Detain indefinitely enemy combatants until the WAR is over.)
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