Thursday, April 12, 2007

Waiting for The Prince By James Mazol

"The debating club currently masquerading as a legitimate government in Baghdad will never attain its goal without establishing dominant authority first.
In the early 16th century, a young Italian patriot sat nightly in his study, reading and writing with a missionary fervor. The wisdom of the ancients and his pen soothed the persistent mental torture he felt while helplessly watching his precious Italia ravaged by foreign armies and domestic discord. His name was Niccolo Machiavelli. The product of those nights, The Prince, is the indispensable guide for anyone interested in gaining and holding power. It was also a call for a man to take power and unite Italy for the sake of its humiliated people.

What is needed to stabilize the situation in Iraq is a Machiavellian Prince, a man to definitively end the violence tearing the cradle of civilization asunder. He must be willing and skilled at occasionally employing immoral measures to consolidate his rule, so that Iraqis will enjoy enough solidarity to give them a chance at living in the republic they deserve."

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