The Discerning Texan
All that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing.
-- Edmund Burke
-- Edmund Burke
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Afghanistan's Parliament approves resolution granting "mujahedeen" immunity from war crimes
Nice...
I think Bush's idea of "democracy" is flawed. A democracy is a place you can be in the minority and have your rights protected by constitutional law. During the occupation of Japan we insisted that Shinto as a religion would be allowed but that Shinto as a political entity (which it had been in Imperial Japan) would be outlawed. It is looking more and more as if it would have been much more productive had we similarly "insisted" in secular, rather than Islamic-based Constitutions in Afghanistan and Iraq...
I think Bush's idea of "democracy" is flawed. A democracy is a place you can be in the minority and have your rights protected by constitutional law. During the occupation of Japan we insisted that Shinto as a religion would be allowed but that Shinto as a political entity (which it had been in Imperial Japan) would be outlawed. It is looking more and more as if it would have been much more productive had we similarly "insisted" in secular, rather than Islamic-based Constitutions in Afghanistan and Iraq...
Labels: Afghanistan, Iraq, US Politics, War strategy
