[browardchad]

Reading through this and other linked threads has been a pleasure. Thank you.

Though I have much to learn about conservative principles and the history of conservative thought, reading these threads made me wonder how this "spontaneous and irresistible development of certain obvious principles" can possibly take hold in a country such as Iraq, which has not had such "evolution" of free institutions and ideas.

It seems that George Will has recently written on this subject in a manner related to the material of this thread:

Can We Make Iraq Democratic?

[KC Burke]

A good G. Will article with some thoughts consistant with those of Hayek. Thanks.

I plan to post the balance of the Chapter to this thread later today. Check back.

[Sam Cree]

fwiw, although Hayek was an enemy of anything leftist, he did not consider himself a conservative.

Regarding the imposition of democratic freedom in Iraq, which does not have any such tradition, I would like to point out that we were successful in transforming Japan, which also had an extremely different tradition.