An emergent democracy?
- Mar 10, 2010 -
Some 12 million Iraqi voters went to the polls this week, a reported 62 percent turnout. The elections, held in Iraq on March 7, featured over 6,000 parliamentary candidates from a broad cross-section of the nation’s population.
Even Newsweek recently called the changes in Iraq the “birth of a nation,” going so far as to admit “that something that looks mighty like democracy is emerging in Iraq.” It does not look like the form of democracy we enjoy in the U.S., in fact Gen. David Petraeus termed it “Iraqracy.”
Yet no matter what it is called or specifically what it looks like, it is good news, both for the citizens of the country and the rest of the Middle East, as free elections will hopefully provide a more fertile ground for an expansion of freedoms in the area.
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