Iraq
“The formation of cities (3500 bc – 2400 bc) in lower Iraq was a revolution in the history of mankind: it brought about the integration of diverse clans, villages, and other small groups into a single society.” – A History of Islamic Cultures by Ira Lapidus
In very small tribes there is little room for individuality. Everyone is watching everyone in a monoculture. When your society becomes larger, people have more room to try customs brought into the new paradigm by other conquered villages.
Is this the guiding principle of democracy? If we conquer un-democratic tribes, we are freeing them to become anything they want?
It’s amazing to think, in that case, that Iraq was the first nation to bring democracy to others. 3000 years before Christ, 5000 years before George Bush. Iraq is the Original Democracy!
B-52′s loaded with democracy to be dropped on Iran, Syria, North Korea…
Jim Rolston isn’t bringing democracy to your neighborhood, he is keeping riff raff out of the scrapyard in Madbury.