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Originally Posted by arsenal
On a side note, since Japan was one of the last times the US installed a democracy in a country. It took 3 years until the US felt it was safe to remove troops from Japan. The move to a democracy was with the full blessing of the Emporer, whom the Japanese revered as a God. So what the Emporer said, went. Just keep that in mind when you wonder why it is taking so long. Right now in Iraq, there is no one person or set of people that the Iraqi's are able to look to for guidance. It hopefully will happen sooner than later.
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Japan didn't need to embrace pluralism for democracy to succeed there. In Iraq however, a true free democracy cannot exist without pluralism due to it being a multicultural society, and the conditions for pluralism simply do not exist - nor can they because part of those conditions would include accepting undemocratic Islamists as an equal partner in building Iraq.
It was a flawed goal from the onset.