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 Friday March 21, 2003 19:20 by The US State Department
 CHANCES FOR DEMOCRACY IN IRAQ ARE SLIM AND NONE CHANCES FOR DEMOCRACY IN IRAQ ARE SLIM AND NONE WASHINGTON -- The State Department has now confirmed in a deeply disturbing report what any of us with any experience in the Middle East instinctively and intellectually know -- that Iraq is the least likely country in the world to be "democratized." Not only are economic and social problems there so intense as to undermine basic stability in the region for years, the report says, but even if some form of democratic government took form, the spoils would go to fundamentalist Islamists deeply hostile to the United States. The thrust of the still-secret document, printed first in the Los Angeles Times, is that "political changes conducive to broader and enduring stability throughout the region will be difficult to achieve for a very long time. This idea that you are going to transform the Middle East and fundamentally alter its trajectory is not credible." To give you some idea of the depth of understanding of President Bush's war party (Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, et al) on Iraq, these men depend intellectually upon the judgments of Princeton University professor emeritus Bernard Lewis. Yet at the many conferences that we have all attended here and heard professor Lewis speak, the only rationale he has given for believing in Iraqi democratization has been that he had some Iraqi graduate students who were very, very promising. related link : http://www.uexpress.com/georgieannegeyer/index.cfm?
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