{"id":390953,"date":"2010-03-05T00:01:58","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T05:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/papundits.wordpress.com\/?p=32140"},"modified":"2010-03-05T00:01:58","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T05:01:58","slug":"iraq-the-democracy-the-left-wouldn%e2%80%99t-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/390953","title":{"rendered":"Iraq, The Democracy The Left Wouldn\u2019t Back"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>By Andrew Bolt<\/strong><\/p>\n

Professor Fouad Ajami marvels at what has been wrought in Iraq, facing another general election on March 7:<\/p>\n

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The American project in Iraq has midwifed that rarest of creatures in the Greater Middle East: a government that emerges out of the consent of the governed. We should trust the Iraqis with their own history. That means letting their electoral process play out against the background of the Arab dynasties and autocracies, and of the Iranian theocracy next door that made a mockery out of its own national elections\u2026 <\/em><\/p>\n

Of all that has been said about Iraq since the time that country became an American burden, nothing equals the stark formulation once offered by a diplomat not given to grandstanding and rhetorical flourishes. Said former U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker: \u201cIn the end, what we leave behind and how we leave will be more important than how we came.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n

We can already see the outline of what our labor has created: a representative government, a binational state of Arabs and Kurds, and a country that does not bend to the will of one man or one ruling clan<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Read more excellent articles from Andrew Bolt\u2019s Blog<\/a><\/p>\n

Andrew Bolt<\/em><\/a> is a journalist and columnist writing for <\/em>The Herald Sun<\/em><\/a> in Melbourne Victoria Australia.<\/em><\/p>\n

Filed under: America (USA)<\/a>, Democracy<\/a>, Iraq<\/a>, Liberals<\/a>, Lily-Livered Liberals<\/a>, Limp-Wrist Liberals<\/a>, Middle East<\/a>, Politics<\/a>, Propaganda<\/a>, Public Opinion<\/a> Tagged: Andrew Bolt<\/a>, Iraq<\/a>, Iraq Democracy<\/a>, Iraq Elections<\/a>, Tony<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Andrew Bolt Professor Fouad Ajami marvels at what has been wrought in Iraq, facing another general election on March 7: The American project in Iraq has midwifed that rarest of creatures in the Greater Middle East: a government that emerges out of the consent of the governed. We should trust the Iraqis with their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4200,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}