To try to turn Iraq into a liberal democracy is absolutely crazy. Islam has no understanding of the separation between church and state because they don't understand Islam to be a church.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Some Iraqi troops aren't willing to fight for their government. But many Shiites appear willing to fight for their religious leaders.
You notice how liberals keep saying, 'If only Islam would have a Reformation' - it can't have one. It says it can't. It's extremely dangerous in that way.
It's astounding the degree to which these communities are intermarried. Iraq is a crazy quilt of ethnicities and religious sects.
The United States is not for democracy in Iraq, it's for setting up a puppet government.
Democracies domesticate religious groups to become political players. That's how it works.
Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.
Many Sunnis, who are still stuck in the Saddam era mindset and believe Iraq belongs to them, are trying to prevent a new country from developing at all.
Islam does not believe in democracy, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, or freedom of assembly. It does not separate religion and politics. It is partly a religion, but it is much more than that. It has a political agenda that goes far outside the realm of religion.
Iraq is part of a legitimate American effort not to have democracy everywhere but to have democracy somewhere.
Sectarian politics gets votes in Iraq. But sectarian government fails in Iraq.