Comments on: Failure Is Not An Option: Part 6 http://fluidimagination.com/blog/2006/09/07/failure-is-not-an-option-part-6/ Melting down disparate elements to form a new reality. Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:04:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Kyle http://fluidimagination.com/blog/2006/09/07/failure-is-not-an-option-part-6/#comment-2737 Kyle Fri, 08 Sep 2006 17:37:22 +0000 http://fluidimagination.com/blog/2006/09/07/failure-is-not-an-option-part-6/#comment-2737 I honestly don\'t know. I have no idea what the future government of Iraq will look like. I hope that it will be a democratically elected Iraqi government that has no ties to the United States, ties that would suggest it is a puppet government that will do our every bidding, provoking more violence. I don\'t expect the government to actually have a handle on the place for at least a generation. Look at Mexico. They\'ve only had a functioning democracy for 11 years, and right now, there is <a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/04/AR2006090400699.html\" title=\"Mexico - Democracy Under Threat\" rel="nofollow">a real chance that it will fail</a>, thanks to Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the losing presidential candidate who has declared that he will set up a shadow government in the south of the country (as if John Kerry had decided to start a new American goverment that was located in the Northeast). Democracies are messy, and they must be fought for, but they can\'t be fought by proxy, as we\'re doing it now. The Iraqis themselves have to do the fighting. I know the plan is that we\'re only there until they can, but as long as we\'re there in such force, they won\'t have to. When we leave, chaos will be the rule of the day. But as I said, it already is. So, I don\'t know what the eventual government will look like, or whether it will accept money from us, or whether it will use that money as I intend, for infrastructure and a secular educational system, but I do know that the violence will definitely not stop as long as we\'re still there. I honestly don\’t know. I have no idea what the future government of Iraq will look like. I hope that it will be a democratically elected Iraqi government that has no ties to the United States, ties that would suggest it is a puppet government that will do our every bidding, provoking more violence. I don\’t expect the government to actually have a handle on the place for at least a generation.

Look at Mexico. They\’ve only had a functioning democracy for 11 years, and right now, there is a real chance that it will fail, thanks to Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the losing presidential candidate who has declared that he will set up a shadow government in the south of the country (as if John Kerry had decided to start a new American goverment that was located in the Northeast).

Democracies are messy, and they must be fought for, but they can\’t be fought by proxy, as we\’re doing it now. The Iraqis themselves have to do the fighting.

I know the plan is that we\’re only there until they can, but as long as we\’re there in such force, they won\’t have to.

When we leave, chaos will be the rule of the day. But as I said, it already is.

So, I don\’t know what the eventual government will look like, or whether it will accept money from us, or whether it will use that money as I intend, for infrastructure and a secular educational system, but I do know that the violence will definitely not stop as long as we\’re still there.

]]> By: Josh http://fluidimagination.com/blog/2006/09/07/failure-is-not-an-option-part-6/#comment-2733 Josh Fri, 08 Sep 2006 15:51:05 +0000 http://fluidimagination.com/blog/2006/09/07/failure-is-not-an-option-part-6/#comment-2733 Kyle, do you really think that if we leave Iraq there will be any semblance of a government there who would take money from us? Kyle, do you really think that if we leave Iraq there will be any semblance of a government there who would take money from us?

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