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Yes- But in your opinion: Could the canton system of Switzerland be imposed upon on Iraq without massive US military presence and administration?
32 posted on 04/23/2003 8:00:55 PM PDT by Burkeman1 (B)
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No. It goes too much against the culture in the region. The idea now seems to be to reshape that culture. Whether it will work is another question.

Most countries are divided into districts for administration, but the question is democracy will work there at all.

David Pryce-Jones, a colleague of Jonah's, has long argued that Arabic cultures are too dominated by honor, shame and violence for democracy to work. So it will be interesting to see how National Review reconciles these contradictory views.

34 posted on 04/23/2003 8:22:51 PM PDT by x
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