You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink. Contrary to what Westerners have always thought about the virtues of bringing democracy to those who don't have it, since it is the "natural" state of man governing himself.......it DOES NOT work in cultures who have no experience with it (democracy assumes individual responsibility for one's acts). Tribal structures, dictatorships, or absolute monarchies cannot function in a democratic fashion...and evolution toward democracy, even after the removal, one way or another, of the previous form of govt. doesn't see democracy emerging automatically. Democracy requires education, in all senses of the term. It would seem that all those years of colonialism in various parts of the world didn't sufficiently prepare the populations for self-govt. (gee, I wonder why not).

Christian, yes Iraq should aspire to have American style democracy. It is not hard to achieve, just hand half their government over to the control of Goldman Sachs and let the other half be bought by whatever lobby has enough money.

Boarders between nations are for a reason i.e. we are not all the same and outsiders should keep their noses out.

Any chance of that Christian? Gee I wonder why not?