Taking the time to do it right
Here’s yet another bit of the wisdom of our founders courtesy of the PatriotPost…
“A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.” — John Adams
This is one of the reasons why a people seeking to establish a government that ensures the liberty of its people should take their time and carefully craft their constitution. It’s why they should take their time to establish that government that will best serve their people.
Who hasn’t heard our politicians decrying the time it is taking the Iraqi government to become effective? Who hasn’t read about the deplorable amount of time that it’s taken the Iraqis to build a strong, unified government that can keep the invaders from Iran and Syria insurgents under control?
Look at our own government. Our current Congress has accomplished very little since it came into power. Their lack of progress has the American people seething. Congress’ approval ratings hover somewhere near 11%. To see the President’s poor approval ratings (somewhere near 24%) a congressman has to look up with a telescope.
Some might think it unfair to compare the Iraqi government’s apparent lack of progress with our current Congress’ lack of progress. After all, we have a strong, well established government and those damned right-wingers are being obstructionists.
So let’s not compare the Iraqi government’s progress with our current Congress’ lack of progress.
Instead, let’s compare their lack of progress with that of our founding fathers.
So far the Iraqis are still working under their first constitution since we liberated them from the yoke of Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship. That is appalling. Our founding fathers went through two governments before they got it right after the revolution.
From the time the British surrendered at Yorktown in 1781 until the Constitution of the United States was drafted and signed was six years. It took another nine months before it was ratified. The Iraqis managed a similar feat in under half that time.
Considering the slow and deliberate pace of our founders in ensuring that they got it right, how can we expect anything less of the Iraqis? Especially when they’re still under assault from foreign powers masquerading as insurgents?
Originally posted at Perri Nelson’s Website.
On October 19, 2007 at 7:20 pm, Playin' Possum wrote:
Oh no you don’t… It took the Founders of this Nation longer because of their means. The real question is what do they want? In fact, there isn’t enough "they" to want anything. A majority, I’ll wager, wants some kind of a theocracy, and we won’t allow it.
The American right wing are the obstructionists…
Congress has terrible approval ratings because they haven’t taken out the shrub. The shrub is down to his fanatic core. I bet Al-Qaeda would get better ratings than congress if they made up for the error…
How long do we foot this bill? While "we" have diddled with this peripheral issue, the shrub and the tax and borrow and spend Repiglicans have ran up another 3 trillion in debt - at least 500 billion pissed into this thankless war. The shrub and his spendthrifts have spent a third of this country’s red ink in just six years. Six more and we’re done, sir. We’re already teetering. Do you have the brains to see it and the honest courage to admit it?
And is it appreciated? What a joke! The Iraqis will never follow our lead unless we stay there pointing guns at them. All the signs - contracts, outreach, everything - says they are going into the china circle.
What now, bwana?
On October 20, 2007 at 12:38 am, Perri Nelson wrote:
:XThanks for playing:X