I have to say that elections, even in the most peaceful region, always make the hardest time for regional state institutions, including security structures.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We have been using foreign affairs ministries to address security issues, but this practice is outdated. It's time to assign the handling of regional security to national organizations and expert institutions.
Elections are rarely perfect.
Such problems are not solved in one day but there is a great step toward peace and security in the region.
But transitions from the politics of violence to democratic compromise are always messy.
The most desirable state of mankind is that which maintains general security with the smallest encroachment upon individual independence.
The situation in Iraq is dangerous but the regional situation is also very complicated and precarious.
The thought of security bears within it an essential risk. A state which has security as its sole task and source of legitimacy is a fragile organism; it can always be provoked by terrorism to become more terroristic.
There never is a good time for tough decisions. There will always be an election or something else. You have to pick courage and do it. Governance is about taking tough, even unpopular, decisions.
State formation has been a brutal project, with many hideous consequences. But the results exist, and their pernicious aspects should be overcome.
Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.
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