Democracy in Action in Iraq

America's views on Democracy in Iraq are paradoxical at best.

While many criticize the current violence in Iraq, and others callously embrace it as a necessary evil, many Americans seem to have forgotten that it took the United States, arguably, two hundred years to realize a peaceful Democracy (let us not forget Black Suffrage, Native American Suffrage, Women's Suffrage, the struggle for Civil Rights).

When the U.S. committed itself to Democracy in Iraq, it necessarily committed the Iraqui people to years of civil strife. Any college-educated person could have predicted that.

Many did.

But how quickly we forget our own bloody history when given the opportunity to recreate the American experiment in somebody else's New World.

Is it simply a matter of genetic destiny that we should return to the graves of our ancestors to plant a new civilization?

Can any nation resist the bloody allure of Babylon?