From: khaled Alkotob (khaledsa@juno.com)
Date: Sun Oct 16 2005 - 05:52:35 BST
When the US democratic system was installed, check s and balances were
installed too.
Along with the automobile and the freeways, comes street signs, speed
limits, laws, driver licence, a traffic cop, DUI rules and the such.
The Iraqis will have the car and the road and that's about it.
For example, one of the things in the Iraqis constitution is that farmers
will no longer be allowed to use seeds handed down from generation to
generation to plant wheat. Now the wheat will be supplied for Free ( for
the first few years) by the Americans, after that seeds will be bought
from such company as Monsanto.
To a simple Iraqi farmer, when wheat is usually grown, most of it is sent
to the mill, and some seeds are saved to plant next year's crops. Today's
hybrid seed technology does not allow for that, and when that farmer (
illiterate more like, and defiantly cannot read English so the
instructions on the seed bag are useless) tries to plant those seeds for
next year's crop, he will be staring at a barren patch of dirt when his
seeds don't sprout. The rumor mill begins, the conspiracy theories arise,
and now America and the devil are one.
In the early 70s a shipment of US aid of wheat seeds were sent to Iraq to
help their farmers, the seeds were coated with fungicide to help protect
the seed in the ground while it germinates. Well wheat is wheat, and
instead of planting them, they send them to the mill and made bread out
of it. Well you guessed it, hundreds of people died.
That is just but of one example of what happens when you try to impose
external/artificial ways to a living system without either guiding it
every step of the way, or exploring what it's own internal strength are
and using that to help it grow.
That is just one example of a hundred things set up for failure.
Khaled
[Platt]
Khaled. Do you see a possible
> positive outcome of the election today in Iraq? Just to have an
election is a
>
> Quality step forward IMO.
>
> Platt
>
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