How to Create Conflict
By Walter E. Williams

High up on my list of annoyances are references to the United States as a democracy and the suggestion that Iraq should become a democracy. Our nation’s founders had disdain for democracy and majority rule. And I can’t think of a worse place than Iraq to have a democracy—majority rule. Iraq needs a decentralized republic with limited government power. The ideal political model for Iraq is Switzerland’s cantonal system… Read more.