Kierkegaard, a philosopher of the Victorian era, said that all cultures are not equal in their
development. What he meant was that
during his lifetime there were people living in stone age cultures with stone
age governments and societies, such as the aborigines in Australia. However, there were also industrialized
societies with Democratic or
Parliamentarian governments such as in Great Britain and most of Europe. Most cultures at the time were somewhere in
between. That cultural reality is not
much different in 2012, over a hundred years later.
I had a problem with former President Bush’s method of spreading
Democracy. His concept did not appear to
be in sync with most of Iraq’s political traditions. Iraq’s culture is very different than that
of the US. After observing the history of the region, other than Israel, all
countries in the area seem to prefer either dictatorships, tribal or one-party
rule types of government.
I disagree with President Obama’s political vision for the
US on a similar conceptual level.
Whereas President Bush wanted to lift Iraq forward towards democracy,
President Obama wants our country to regress to an inferior, primitive type of
Progressive/Socialist dictatorship form of government. It doesn't fit.
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