The Nature of a Political System: Current US Efforts in Establishing Democracies in the Middle East

Mr. Bush's aggressive, bellicose, and potentially disastrous foreign policy reflected by his invasion of Iraq, this countries unstinting support for the creation and maintenance of a Jewish Theocracy, and now, the notion that the United States can establish Democracies throughout the Middle East, is contrary to the very notion of national sovereignty and government established as a sine qua non to our foreign policy during the administrations of Presidents Washington and Adams:

"We certainly cannot deny to other nations that principal whereon our own government is founded, that every nation has the right to govern itself internally under what form it pleases and to change these forms at it's own will." (Thomas Jefferson: On the French Revolution: 1792), and
"A government must be fitted to a nation as much as a coat to an individual.....What is good at Philadelphia may be bad in Paris and ridiculous in Petersburg." (Alexander Hamilton: On the Government of France: 1798)

Both Jefferson and Hamilton, hardly political allies, recognized that for the long term stability of a government:

governments were to be established or changed, internally, by a people in terms of their own history and culture,
that a Democracy may not be established or even desirable, and
we must respect the sovereignty of a nation.

In his Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville in 1835 states:
"....local independence is beyond the reach of human effort. It is seldom created but...springs up of its own accord...it is at the local level that the strength of a free people lies....they bring it within reach of the people. Without local institutions, a nation may give itself a free government, but it will not have a free spirit".....it may have..." the outward forms of independence, but despotism repressed within the body of society will eventually resurface."

This has been the history of Iraq; a Country of great ethnic and religious diversity that has been unable to coalesce under the unifying force of Iraqi Nationalism. Ruled by United Nations (British) mandate and a series of despotic leaders, the "citizens" of modern Iraq have never been able to recognized the utility of National Union in the face of their great diversity; and, that without this National Union Democracy and Freedom are impossible.
Modern Iraq is fractured by Linguistic, Ethnic, and Religious differences:
80% of the population speak Arabic, 15% speak Kurdish, with several other languages spoken as well (Turcoman, Armenian, and Persian),
Ethnically, 72% of the population are Arabs, 23% Kurds, and 5% composed of either Turcomans, Assyrians, or Armenians, and, in terms of Religion,
95% of the population are either Suni or Shia Moslems, 3.5% Christian, and 1.4% Yazi,
75% of the Moslems are Arabs with the Shia Moslems forming 52% of the total Moslem Population (including the Kurds) and 70% of the Arab population. Among the Moslem population, the Sunni sect is a minority population found mainly in the center, western, and southern portions of Iraq.

A complex society indeed!!!
"These is no power in the world other than patriotism and religion capable of making all citizens march steadily as one toward a single goal." (de Tocqueville, 1835). Iraq is divided by the most powerful of Human created passions: Language, Ethnicity, and Religion. These passions are inflamed by the arrogance, selfishness, and pettiness of their Religious leaders. Iraqi Patriotism, a spirit of individual liberty and freedom that recognizes the necessity for the existence of a National Unifying Government, does not and has never existed among the "citizens" of Iraq!
Are we to believe that the present Administration is unaware of these facts? Certainly not. Then why the interest in Iraq. "Liberating Iraq" and establishing a Democracy is a purposeful sham! It might be argued that, notwithstanding the barbarity of Saddam Hussein, his brutality was required for avoiding civil war and anarchy in Iraq.

THEN WHY? The establishment of a Government, generally, is nothing more than a blueprint as to who will control the wealth and power in a Country. For Iraq: The control of Iraqi oil, originally (1932) by a conglomerate of British, French and American interests; and now by the US and British, with others trying to get in on the action; and, and our support for the continued usurpation of land in Palestine by a Jewish Theocracy in the region. This is the underpinning of current US foreign policy in the Middle East,