Questions about the voting system in USA

[Occhidiangela]

Well, that is it for now. I am sure more questions will come when I get some more input on this whole thing which to me seems very strange and not the way elections should be done. 

You want to quibble about folks who cast judgements on how someone else votes after you posted that? Jarulf, you got what you came for, and more. Play "the innocent" with someone else, I've been around too long.

As to parliamentarian systems, my preference for others is irrelevant. My preference for my country is the one we have, though I imagine it could improve, and I expect that the systems in other lands where parliamentary systems are in place are more or less what suits the people there best, or meet the "good enough" test.

As to the US telling people how to vote, the last time I checked, it was the UN that observes the vast majority of " elections" in places that "need it" like Haiti. Go fish.

The situation in Iraq is a bit of an anomaly, and I for one am not impressed with the way the UN folded up its tent a few months back after a bombing. The UN, which has as members nations both of our countries, appears to be ill served by its current leadership in the area of resolve. The US leadership seems to have missed a few opportunities to fold in UN cooperation in the process of the past 10 months. That stinks. There are loads of representative government models that work, each with its own strengths and weaknesses, and I for one would love to see a "Chinese Menu" approach available to the folks in Iraq: pick from what makes most sense to you, one from column A two from Column B . . . :)

The UN should have been far more involved in the process, which has not been helped by the chilly attitudes in Washington, nor by the UN's lack of resolve. This is bad from every way you look at it. And as I predicted before the war went down, the most likely thing that will happen in any case in Iraq is the formation of an Islamic Republic, of some form to be determined by the people there. Or, a civil war. I would rather see the first than the second.

As for trolling, pot calls the kettle black, dear sir. I merely repaid in kind your initial posts closing.