Why do we think we have the right to force Democracy on the Iraqi people?

Question

If the Iraqi's are uncooperative, then why are we wasting our time forcing them into Democracy? Democracy works for us, it may not for them! Why is it we feel we have the right to force them into establishing our government in their country?

Answer 1

Abroad in Iraq and Afghanistan, Britain and America have set out to liberate individuals from tyranny, and for those leading it, it is just the first step in a global revolution for democracy.

But if one steps back and looks at what has resulted, it is a very strange kind of freedom. The attempt to liberate people from the dead hand of bureaucracy has lead to the rise of a new and increasingly controlling system of management driven by targets and numbers. While governments committed to creating freedom of choice in all areas have actually presided over a rise of inequalities and a dramatic collapse of social mobility. The consequence has been a return of the power of class and privilege.

Abroad the attempt to create democracy has lead not just to bloody mayhem, but a rejection of the American-led campaign to bring freedom. It has summoned up an anti-democratic, authoritarian Islamism. This in turn has helped inspire terrorism attacks in Britain itself. In response, the government has dismantled long standing laws designed to protect our freedom.

This is a series of films about how this strange paradoxical world came to be created. It begins in the dark and frightening days of the Cold War and it will show how what we have today is a very narrow and peculiar idea of freedom that was born out of a paranoia of that time. It is based on an image of human beings as selfish, isolated and suspicious creatures who constantly monitor and strategise against each other. The films will show how politicians and scientists came to believe that this idea of human nature could be the basis of a new type of free society. But what none of them would realise was that within this dark and distrustful vision, lay the seeds of a new revolutionary system of social control. It would use the language of freedom but in reality it would come to entrap us and our leaders in a narrow and empty world.

Answer 2

um....who say's they are being "uncooperative"?  

there are too many "grown up" issues to be listed here, but consider a few things:  where are you getting your information?  is it comprehensive?  what is your basis for your claim that we are "forcing" democracy on them?

the road to understanding begins with the ability to push past the inclination to make quick judgements based on a minimal amount of factual information....

Answer 3

2 reasons.

1) Americans believe that they are gods gift to man, and everyone should live like us even if they don't want to. The fact that they don't want to just means that they need to be educated.

2)We destroyed their country. We owe it to them to rebuild it. And this is the only way we know how.

Answer 4

Christian Fascist Imperialism, duh.