And if we all hold hands and sing Kumbay-ah and maybe throw in a rain dance then democracy will work.
Nowhere in the world has a true democracy ever worked on a large scale. Representational democracy results in just as much discontent as we currently have in the middle east. The few more powerful attempting to represent the majority. The only true democracy in the history of the world has been upheld by the Greeks who we now see as toppled and with excessive faults of their own.
And since so many people want to key on "democracy" being an American export then perhaps you should research the Republic of the United States for even the individuals who dreamt of equal representation and freedom for realized that a TRUE democracy was unattainable for many reasons.
The export from the US over the last 150 years has been the idea of "free will of man", "free speech for all", and the idea of a representative government in which the people of a nation have a say in their government. Perhaps these countries could have gone the way of the Greeks or British in the way they had writtten their Constitutions and designed their governments.
Peace in the Middle East will only be attained through the stepping aside of rulers, representation of the peoples' will, and of course the PEOPLE, (not some sheik, mullah, or holy ali baba) must actually have a concern for the politics in their own country and the area surrounding them.
Wars are started and lost on the backs uncaring irreverent people. Wars are prevented and success of nations is built by the hands of the people with concern and determination.
And if we all hold hands and sing Kumbay-ah and maybe throw in a rain dance then democracy will work.
Nowhere in the world has a true democracy ever worked on a large scale. Representational democracy results in just as much discontent as we currently have in the middle east. The few more powerful attempting to represent the majority. The only true democracy in the history of the world has been upheld by the Greeks who we now see as toppled and with excessive faults of their own.
And since so many people want to key on "democracy" being an American export then perhaps you should research the Republic of the United States for even the individuals who dreamt of equal representation and freedom for realized that a TRUE democracy was unattainable for many reasons.
The export from the US over the last 150 years has been the idea of "free will of man", "free speech for all", and the idea of a representative government in which the people of a nation have a say in their government. Perhaps these countries could have gone the way of the Greeks or British in the way they had writtten their Constitutions and designed their governments.
Peace in the Middle East will only be attained through the stepping aside of rulers, representation of the peoples' will, and of course the PEOPLE, (not some sheik, mullah, or holy ali baba) must actually have a concern for the politics in their own country and the area surrounding them.
Wars are started and lost on the backs uncaring irreverent people. Wars are prevented and success of nations is built by the hands of the people with concern and determination.
Hmmm- which personality is coming out today?