dreaming of democracy
“Dreaming of Democracy” By George Packer In this article, George Packer discusses the potential of a new democratic state in Iraq as part of the Future of Iraq Project. He gives us a deep insight of why democracy in Iraq is not a hopeful solution to Iraq’s problems and how it may not even be achieved any time soon. Packer points out two main reasons for the hopelessness of democracy in Iraq; one of them being the opposing ideas of reconstruction of the U. ... State Department and the Pentagon, and the most imperative factor on the way of democracy: the ethnic division within Iraq. ... ” George Packer discusses in depth why the Future of Iraq Project’s proposal of democracy in Iraq is damned to fail. He additionally assesses Makiya’s detailed report on democracy after Saddam, which was delegated to him because he is a member of the Democratic Principles Working Group in the Future of Iraq Project. ... A problem also lies in assuming that the Iraqi people want a democracy. “We’ve suffered so much that the only alternative is democracy- as soon as you say it, you realize that there’s a mile between the beginning and the end of that sentence,” president of the Carnegie Endowment, Jessica T. Mathews states in a critical response to the idea of Iraq as a democracy. ... I do not recall Americans being asked if they agreed with sacrificing the interest our people over another countrys and I think that, as members of a democracy, we have the right to have a saying in all of this and to be informed of what is actually happening in Iraq.