Krem wrote:
The U.S. is a deeply religious country too, yet we manage to more or less keep the religion out of politics (liberals' claims to the opposite nonwithstanding). I think you give too little credit to the Iraqis; I'm sure, if given the chance, they would love to sort things out for themselves.
Its comepletely different. Sure we were found by deeply religious people (in the Northeast that is, Virginia was a different story) that didn't like government stifling of their practices. So we already had some sort of vague concept seperation of church and state. Yes we are heavily religious, and don't worry the way things are going now, just give it 50 years and I think we'll expect our Prez to vow allegiance to the New testament (oh wait a minunte.....). Ok, vow to it but not as a formality.
What I meant to say is not that the U.S. is less religious, but that we constructed the space in which we practice differently. I give the Iraqis plenty of credit, enough that I didn't think we should be bombing the hell out of them. Also, they will clearly re-organize and do well, I just think its not going to be a one election turn-around. These things take time, we should realize this after we thought Haiti was so easy, and that didn't even have the same fringe religious fundamentalism groups.
