Pinning The Blame On Culture
Mitch Townsend of Chicago Boyz tries hard to get to this Robb brief (which is bizarre seeing as GGs is on the blogroll) but gets stuck in some cultural muck and misses the mark:
Democracy, as defined by free and fair elections, has been established, yet the situation is clearly not improving. There is a cultural problem in the Middle East that democracy cannot cure.
He goes on to blame ingrained cultural tribalism as the cause of a lack of “mutual trust in Iraq”. Cultural context is not the cause of the Iraq expedition failing.
-Shlok
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