The end result is still the same. To have a free sociaty it MUST be the other way around! Quite minorities are completely useless, even quite majorities can't do too much.
True. I believe that the majority of Iraqis are the 'quiet' ones who are in favor of the US's actions. There's the minority of Iraqi's who go around, spouting their extremist creed, threatening anyone else who would go against them... Iraq first needs to be secure, the people need the security to speak out without fear or being labeled an infidel. I always see protests on the news, but they're always anti-American protests. You will never see a pro-America rally in Iraq, atleast not right now. People are too scared.
The USA only drove out England because the liberty-minded individuals here were able to put the sheep in their places. There are no signs of that happening in Iraq on the scale that is needed.
True to an extent. We can be more sure on June 30th, when sovereignty is supposed to be handed over. We will see the new leaders of Iraq, and we will see how much charisma they have with the people.
Another thing that will help a free, and individualistic sociaty hold together is a sense of pride. Do you think Americans would have been so proud if the French would have completly fought our war for us than wrote us a constitution, then made sure that our early leaders were acceptable to them?
Yeh the military, working with Iraqis, is trying to fix that through a series of non-war related things, such as rebuilding Iraq's infrastructure -- schools, hospitals, housing, etc... There's a sense of pride in that, IMO. There will be a sense of pride through all of the cleric leadership and assitance in forming the Iraqi governing council. But yeh, they couldn't do most of the work themselves like we did, since they are so divisive.