Great philosophers and thinkers have come from that region.
I believe that America is exceptional, but one of the things that is exceptional in this country is that our Founders wrote within the founding documents the need to overcome innate sin with checks and balances, and drew our laws from God's laws.
The Iraqi people are no more sinful than American people, and if safeguards have been written into their constitution, they have every chance of success.
(And don't confuse optimism with being a 'pollyanna.' Just because you are a pessimist doesn't mean that the President who is not, is simplistic).
Off to work.....
LOL, I underestimate no one. Cultural differences do exist. For someone to deny such existence is to look at the world through rose colored glasses
Great philosophers and thinkers have come from that region.
Of course they have. Don't remember many in the lot advocating republican form of government though. Do you? John Locke Mohammed? Adam Al Smith? Nope sorry.
I believe that America is exceptional, but one of the things that is exceptional in this country is that our Founders wrote within the founding documents the need to overcome innate sin with checks and balances, and drew our laws from God's laws.
And the Iraqi constitution has stated they will draw their laws from a religion based on a 3000 year old dead moon god whose sole prophet 'married' little girls. Nice. Hope that works out for them. It won't but I hope it does for the short term so the troops can come home
The Iraqi people are no more sinful than American people, and if safeguards have been written into their constitution, they have every chance of success.
Oh yes, safeguards. Let's set a safeguard by writing into the constitution two aspects that for all intent and purposes are mutually exclusive. Democratic and civil rights safeguards guaranteed. At the same time, every law must be based on the precepts of Islam. Yep, that'll work. For all of about five minutes into the first convening of their governing body
(And don't confuse optimism with being a 'pollyanna.' Just because you are a pessimist doesn't mean that the President who is not, is simplistic).
I think a lot of things about the President. Simplistic isn't necessarily one of them
LOL...Like whom? In what has been called "the barbarous and unspeakable cruelty of the Babylon Assyrians," the names of such kings as Ashurnasirpal (883-859 B.C.), Tiglath-Pileser III (745- 727 B.C.), Sennacherib (704-681 B.C.), and Ashurbanipal (669-626 B.C.) continue to evoke images of powerful brutally savage conquerors. Tiglath-Pileser III, Nebuchanezzar, Hammurabi and Cyrus the Great were no better, IMHO... They all enslaved conquered lands (Nebuchanezzar took the entire population of ancient Israel, according to the Bible), threw virgins to the ovens to quench the taste of Baal, killed innocent babies and put their own mothers to the sword. Yeah, I know, Hammurabi gave us a so-called "code" but it is in no way comparable to the Magna Carta or anything else a CIVILIZED society produced...
...go back to school, professor, you FAIL!