decisionmaking under time pressure

[Earl Maltz]

The insistence by America's elites (both left and right) on the 
establishment of a regime based on Western values smacks of the philosophy 
of the "white man's burden" that provided the justification for colonialism 
in an earlier era, with secular government and democracy in general and 
women's rights in particular replacing Christianity as the ideologies that 
we seek to impose upon political elites in other countries "for their own 
good."

The invasion of Iraq was a fool's errand to begin with--with or without 
weapons of mass destruction (for the record, I am not a Johnny come lately 
to that position--I refused to vote for Bush largely because of the 
invasion.  Oh, well, there goes my appointment to the Supreme Court.  Our 
priority in the constitution-writing process should be to provide the 
foundation for getting our troops OUT--no more and no less.  If that means 
accepting a document that some Americans find offensive, that is 
unfortunate, but, oh well.



At 01:02 AM 8/2/2005 -0500, Kim Schepple wrote:



>Plus, it seems to that the present draft has many dangerous tendencies. 
>For example:
>
>
>-- the constitution seems to put Shari'a above the constitution
>-- women's rights are restricted
>-- the constitutional court is given the power of judicial review, but 
>then four out of the nine judges on the constitutional court are required 
>to have their primary education in Shari'a instead of secular law.
>
>
><http://balkin.blogspot.com/2005/08/potemkin-constitution-for-iraq.html>
>
>
>
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