3 Forum Posts by "flamy"
At 4/10/03 11:16 PM, Jlop985 wrote: We need to do what we did with Germany and Japan at the end of WWII. Rebuild their economy and government. There are three factions in Iraq- the Shiites, the Sunnis, and the Kurds. To provide democratic stability I think that they need a parliamentary democratic republic. I was happy to see the Iraqis celebrate their freedom, and I am happy to see this result, but I still question Bush's motives.
Nobody will want a democratica republic; it's not war-torn Germany and Nuke-bombed Japan facing threat of communism.
The leaders of three main nations (if they exist) will be too ambitious, and if US will give Go sign to parliamentary system, the country will just fall apart (by the way, under Saddam Iraq was formally presidential republic with temporal power :)
And now you can see how Turkey is afraid of Kurdish separatism, that it's even occupied some part of the northern Iraq.
Iraq will be divided into three parts:
Unleaded, regular and premium :)
OK, we're clear that communism won't work, and capitalism isn't that good. But what about socialism? There are lots of examples of socialism working, like Switzerland, Netherlands, Finland, Canada :) and so on. And as I understand, socialism is based on capitalistic economic system, however there is a small addition - higher taxes and because of that higher level of social care (such as free medicine) is implemented.
Socialism is a nice alternative to two extremes - people still get rewarded and get more free stuff from the government, which makes them equal.
It was previously mentioned that American army came to liberate Iraqi people from brutal regime, but who can guaranty that there will be no other brutal regime installed afterwards. After war is over, the country will need a new leader, a leader who can gather nation from post-war chaos and establish order, a leader like... ...Saddam Hussein in 1973..... So where is the point...?
Although US is celebrating victory, the question of appropriates of the war should never fade, as it is happening now... victors need never explain, success is never blamed.
