Maybe, in a period of transience, strong governance and
strict rules which are enforced, would be suitable? (not meaning
killing and torturing like in Saddams days, of cuz...).
But Saddam already tried that for 35 years.
Iraqi society I believe is a tribal society, so I think it must
be governed under it's own unique system. It can't follow other
states organised along non tribal lines.
For people
who don't understand Iraq, how important are family and tribal
connections in that society?
Family and tribal connections are
supreme. They come ahead of ideology.
They come ahead of commitment to the
nation-state, they come ahead of all
commitments. Saddam Hussein realizes
that.
Another paradigm I want to establish is a difference between
two kinds of
civilizations, which means a difference between two
kinds of governments in them. Asiatic
civilizations, which I call Class B Civilizations, generally
do not attempt to deal with individuals or with the problems of
individuals; they leave interpersonal relationships to the local or
kinship community.
Class A
Civilizations include Classical Civilization, our own Western
Civilization, or the first Chinese or Sinic
Civilization, whose dates are 1800 B.C. to 400 A.D.
In Class A
Civilizations, although the civilization begins as
an area of common culture made up of communities,
there is a long
term trend to destroy and break down those
communities.
The way I would like to express this would be -- and I used to draw
it on the blackboard -- by saying that all civilizations start out
as aggregations of communities.
Those communities
are generally of two types, either local, such as parishes,
neighborhoods, villages, or manors; or kinship communities,
families, clans, and so forth.
When a civilization begins with such communities, as ours did in
550, there is no state, and there are no atomized individuals. I
will not go into the details of this, but in such communities,
there are no written laws; all law is customary.
Most controls on behavior are what I call internalized, that is,
they are built into your hormones and your neurological responses.
You do what is necessary to remain a member of the community,
because if you were not a member of the community, you would be
nothing. You would not be a man.
As you may know if you have ever studied linguistics, the names
which many primitive and not-so-primitive peoples have for
themselves is their word for man. The communities from which
Classical Civilization came were clans, kinship groups; the
communities from which Western Civilization came were local
villages and manors. Lucky
civilizations, such as Chinese Civilization over the past 1500
years, generally have communities which are both kinship and
local.
What happens in the course of a Class A Civilization, over a
thousand or more years, is that the fundamental communities are broken up and gradually
disintegrate into smaller and smaller groups, and may end up
simply as what we call nuclear families, a father and a mother, who
eventually lose all discipline and control of their children. The
result of this process is a state which is not only sovereign but
totalitarian, and it is filled with isolated
individuals.
Of the four civilizations which came out of Classical Antiquity's
wreckage, two,
Islamic and Byzantine, clearly are Class B Civilizations,
that is, they continued to work for communities.
Their governments were governments of limited powers, of which the
most important were raising money and recruiting
soldiers.
The finest example of such an Asiatic Despotism was the Mongolian
Empire of Jenghiz Khan about A. D. 1250, but its origins go back to
the Persian Empires of the Achaemenids and the Sassanids. Good
examples of such a structure are the Chinese Civilization of
220-1949, the Byzantine Empire after 640, and the Islamic
sultanates which eventually culminated in the Ottoman Empire. The
efforts of the Carolingian Franks to establish a similar empire in
Western Civilization collapsed and led to the Dark Age of
860-970.
These eastern political traditions might be called Providential
Empire or Providential Monarchy, and they are associated with the
idea of a Providential Deity. To us today, who shove religion off
into a corner and insist that it must have nothing to do with
politics or business or many other things, it may be hard to grasp
that one of the most potent things in establishing the structure of
the state in any civilization has always been men's ideas of the
nature of deity. I will not take time to give you my paradigm for
that; I'll simply point out to you something which should be
obvious. The deity -- God -- has many different attributes. He is
creator; he is masculine; he is transcendental, that is, he is
outside of the world of space and time -- that was established by
500 B.C. Eventually, he is one; that is what Muhammad insisted on.
And then he is omnipotent, all-powerful. I stop at this point;
Providential Empires never got further than this...
http://www.carrollquigley.net/Lectures/The-State-of-Communities-AD-976-1576.htm
So we can clearly see that under Islamic areas such as in Iraq, the
basic social unit is still the tribal organisation, while those
areas in the west, those tribal organisations had been destroyed
and disintegrated.