THE HORSEFEATHERS PLAN: DEMOCRACY FROM THE BOTTOM UP
1. An American military presence that guarantees regional stability, oil assets, and business development.
2. American administration of oil assets that prevents internal fragmentation and external incursion. It also de-Arabizes control over Middle-Eastern oil.
3. Creation of a government with a weak central administration and strong federated states that each determine their own culture.
4. Coalition encouragement of market and business oriented institutions, allowing democratic ideas to emerge from a prosperous bourgeois business community.
5. Subsidization of a private enterprise free press.
The link has the details. Horsefeathers seems right on when it comes to the future of Iraq. Number 4 will be especially important if the country is ever going to see freedom and prosperity. Number 1 is something that I didn't even think of but it makes perfect sense. If we have a continued military presence in Iraq, there will be no need to immediately attack Syria or Iran. Our mere presence may force those countries to re-think their anti-American attitudes or face the stick.
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