Let me get this straight. Having thrown off the yoke of British imperial rule a few centuries ago because it sought to impose its will on the institutions of our various colonies, Tribune Bremer now claims the power of veto over provisions of Iraq's national constitution.
The adoption of an Islamic-oriented basic law, he contends, may cause subjugation of women. Certainly I understand his concerns. But the evolution of American-style of democracy has been just that, an evolution, not an imposition.
Imagine if, two centuries ago, a foreign nation had imposed on us its demand that we give women the right to vote (which, it should be recalled, we didn't extend for the first one hundred years of our "democracy")? How would we react? With adoring deference, or with rebellion?
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