Sunday - September 30, 2007
Which Side is the Iraqi Government on?
Here's a quote from a man who organized the
citizen resistance to Al Qaeda in the Arab Jabour province of
Baghdad.
The central government hasn’t dealt
with us. There is no provincial government. Every time we try we have been
rebuffed. All of the help and support has been from the Coalition. With support
like ammunition, we can destroy al Qaeda. We believe al Qaeda is 70 percent
finished here. The central government does not want to establish security here.
They have an agenda with foreign powers. Quoted
from Bill Roggio's The Long War Journal.
This is something I've always suspected of the Al
Maliki government, that they really aren't for peace in Iraq, or even merely
power for themselves, but that they are the tools of Iran and Syria. Actions
and lack of action that affected our part of Al Anbar made this fairly clear
back in 2005.
Iran has a lot of blame for the disaster in Iraq since
Al Maliki's government was elected, but so does the Bush administration for
allowing the elections for the flawed constitution. It's the modern American
way of not understanding what makes our own nation so great and inflicting that
misunderstanding on others. We are not a democracy.
Our nation is founded on the idea of
inidividualism, freedom, and a government constrained to not interfere with our
rights. The modern trend has been to simply say that we are great because we
are a democracy. Nothing could be further from the
truth.
Our founders knew that democracy
was a terrible political solution and took great pains to limit the power of the
government so that the demos could not rob individuals of their rights. They
created a government that is intentionally designed to be cumbersome and slow to
make laws. They created three branches of government with checks and balances,
all of which are limited by the Bill of
Rights.
Last time I checked, the Iraqi
Constitution did not contain a Bill of Rights. In fact, it named a state
religion. It does not have checks and balances, it has a European style of
parlaimentary government.
Let's hope
that the Iraqis can overcome this monumental blunder of ours and can resurrect
some form of government that recognizes individual rights and freedom and
restores civilization before too many more people are slaughtered by Al Qaeda
and Iran.
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