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by inglor_cz
116 days ago
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Iraqi path to democracy isn't really that different from everyone else's. People tend to forget that various extant democracies, including European ones,
mostly didn't precipitate out of thin air by everyone deciding to just be nice to one another. Many now-democratic countries had to fight a war of independence or a civil war, often with involvement of third parties, to get there. France took about 80 years of violent upheavals from 1789 to 1871 to actually become a democratic republic for good. Germany was even worse. Unification of Italy was a long bloody mess. Poland barely survived the 20th century. Even Swiss direct democracy is an aftermath of a civil war, though in their case, it was a small one. Democracy isn't an application that people just install and it starts working. It usually takes decades for it to take roots, as people have to slowly abandon the idea that it is just easier to massacre their opponents. Even the US came to be after a war of independence with a major external factor on their side (the French) and only ended slavery through a nasty civil war. Iraq isn't really an outlier in that context and Iran wouldn't probably be either. |
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But then people look at it after 5 years and say: but it didn’t work!!!
Not acknowledging that all things ever achieved in life by humans were achieved over time by constant trial and error and not giving up.