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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Ilaine who wrote (20136)6/1/2006 3:50:23 PM
From: epicure  Read Replies (1) of 541299
 
Just because a thing is already there, doesn't mean releasing it is a good idea either. The thesis is that democracy can make the world a more dangerous place. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? Depends what kind of world you want. I'd prefer not to have ethnic hatreds released, at least not by our own hands. If people free themselves, and release their own ethnic hatreds, and civil wars, fine and dandy- their choice. But it's not in the US best interest to go around doing that, nor is it necessarily in the interest of the societies we practice on- as the mounting death toll in Iraq should tell us. Had the Iraqis chosen to export freedom to themselves, and then start killing each other, that's their call. For us to do it- stupid.

The book isn't saying democracy is a bad thing- it's much more complicated than that.
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