Political accountability

One outcome, I believe, of the invasion and occupation of Iraq is how it re-arranged the notion of democracy here in the West. People started talking about the powers Prime Ministers and Presidents had to wage war, legal or not, despite unprecedented protests by the citizenry of many of the countries involved with the invasion.
Democracy as we currently practice it is not a writ in stone, concrete thing, unchanging and stagnant. As human society evolves, so too will democracy. Iraq has helped speed up the process and a good thing too. As apalled as we all are at the carnage that has been unleashed on that unfortunate country, we can take some comfort in the fact that the invading countries have themselves undergone some fundamental changes. An important debate is taking place in the U.K. about giving Parliament a say in taking the country to war.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/military/story/0,11816,1673996,00.html