I am at least confused. I just can’t get what the writer thinks would be right for Iraq – as compared to working for a representaive, ballot-driven society – call it ‘democracy’ or call it ‘republic’ or call it ‘the Shia-Sunni show’.

Frankly, how variable is ‘the task of the government’ that free-citizen-driven government is ever NOT the way to go? Germany to the Nazis was hardly a typical result of democratic process, and at least as much offshoot of demoralizing Germans and nearly destroying their economy via the Treaty of Versailles as anything else.

I mean, Geneva under ‘Lord’ Calvin was nearly a dictatorship. Any rule was fine as long as it passed through Calvin’s lordly decision. One may call him a benevolent dictator, but, dictator he effectively was. Benevolent dictatorships tend to live effectively for ‘the task of the government’ for one generation – should the dictator live so long. In other words, “all tyrants suck”.

But – of Iraq – we need to see an obligation of helping them through one whole generational cycle of elections – until it is all that their children know – to have it sink roots and form governance for ‘the task of the government’ ‘of the people, by the people, for the people’ of Iraq.

Remember, I love you, too

Reminding that we are all on the same side – His,

Pristinus Sapienter

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GK – God is good!