Iraq is like any Islamic country.
The social and the governance model is shaped by the norms of the religion.
The religion is very clear where the rules are inflexible and 'detours' are practically unacceptable.
In the rigid matrix of the religion, only a rigid iron hand (if you will) can succeed.
Take any Islamic country and it will be noticed that whenever democracy has been tried it has failed. Even Pakistan is seesaw in democracy and military dictatorship. Its current democracy is in turmoil with the fundamentalist holding the nation at ransom.
Egypt is back to a military leadership in the guise of democracy.
Syria is in turmoil.
Turkey is hardly a democracy.
Therefore, it is better to let them live the way they want and not superimpose what others feel is 'right'.
The happenings in Iraq and Syria only indicates that we are making it fair grounds for the fundamentalists to run a riot.
Watch this space for what happen in Afghanistan and the experiment in democracy.
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