Originally posted by The Dr. who fixed Lucy:
Well ok, DC, but what is clear is that the Iraqi people feel the need for a strong leader to take charge in a volatile country. You and I live in stable, safe countries, and can afford the luxury of democratic procrastination. Iraqis are living in a tinderbox country, where the need for one leader to take a strong stand is prescient. So the matter is not so much one of experience as it is necessity.
At one time my country was not a stable country. Many here feared the freedoms that were given to them after the civil war. Many of the slaves refused to leave their owners because they feared the unknown. They feared the thought of being free and on their own. So they went back to the only way of life that they ever knew, being slaves under a master. But because they went back to their old way of life did not mean that the new way of life was not good for them. They just did not know better. The same mentality applies with the Iraqi people.
They only know living under a leader and now being faced with a way of life that they know nothing about, a way that is becoming more real to them, it is scary to them so therefore they feel that maybe it is better for them to go back to what they once had, a leader who runs the country.
Don Cardi
