01-20-2020, 08:09 AM
** 20-Jan-2020 World View: Confessional government
It would be hard to justify blaming the rise of ISIS in Iraq on the
confessional form of government, since ISIS rose first in Syria which
is non-confessional.
This has nothing to do with ISIS. The violence I was talking about is
what you saw under Saddam in Iraq, and today in Iran, Syria, Egypt --
and, in fact, in any country where there is a generational crisis
ethnic or racial or religious civil war, and one side wins and takes
control of the government, and then uses violence and democide to
control the losing ethnic, racial or religious group.
That's what Lebanon wanted to avoid, and what Iraq wanted to avoid
after Saddam. The confessional form of government has accomplished
what was intended, in that there's no ethnic group running the
government and using violence and democide to control the other group,
but it's led to its own unique set of problems, particularly
corruption on a massive scale, since there are no checks and balances.
Ironically, the violence and democide in Iraq today does not come from
Saddam or from any Sunni or Shia Iraqi leader. It comes from Iran,
which is trying to control or even annex Iraq. Iran would like to
form a new Persian empire by annexing or controlling Yemen, Iraq,
Syria and Lebanon -- the Shia Crescent -- but is facing numerous
problems in each country, especially with growing riots in Iraq and
Lebanon.
---- Related:
** 3-Nov-19 World View -- Confessional governments in Lebanon and Iraq
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/x...tm#e191103
(01-18-2020, 11:42 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: > The confessional form of government has worked fairly well in both
> Iraq and Lebanon, because it's prevented the kind of massive
> violence that's been occurring in Iran and Syria.
(01-19-2020, 07:11 PM)Warren Dew Wrote: > I wouldn't say this: sectarian issues were responsible for the
> rise of the Islamic State, which was nothing if not violent. Iraq
> just happened to be able to con the US into taking care of that
> issue for them.
It would be hard to justify blaming the rise of ISIS in Iraq on the
confessional form of government, since ISIS rose first in Syria which
is non-confessional.
This has nothing to do with ISIS. The violence I was talking about is
what you saw under Saddam in Iraq, and today in Iran, Syria, Egypt --
and, in fact, in any country where there is a generational crisis
ethnic or racial or religious civil war, and one side wins and takes
control of the government, and then uses violence and democide to
control the losing ethnic, racial or religious group.
That's what Lebanon wanted to avoid, and what Iraq wanted to avoid
after Saddam. The confessional form of government has accomplished
what was intended, in that there's no ethnic group running the
government and using violence and democide to control the other group,
but it's led to its own unique set of problems, particularly
corruption on a massive scale, since there are no checks and balances.
Ironically, the violence and democide in Iraq today does not come from
Saddam or from any Sunni or Shia Iraqi leader. It comes from Iran,
which is trying to control or even annex Iraq. Iran would like to
form a new Persian empire by annexing or controlling Yemen, Iraq,
Syria and Lebanon -- the Shia Crescent -- but is facing numerous
problems in each country, especially with growing riots in Iraq and
Lebanon.
---- Related:
** 3-Nov-19 World View -- Confessional governments in Lebanon and Iraq
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/x...tm#e191103
