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THE EVENTS IN IRAQ, and other countries liberated from oppression, demonstrate the difficulty of implanting a democracy, or as in the case of Iraq, restoring the democracy that was lost in 1958. (It is often forgotten that until 1958 Iraq was a democracy--certainly not a perfect democracy, if there is such an entity, but a democracy nevertheless. Its public service was one of the more honest and efficient in the Arab world. It had a strong and prosperous economy--no one, not even the head of state, could spend public money without lawful authority. And the press enjoyed considerable freedom.)
To put in place a stable democracy, there must first be a system which ...