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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: bela_ghoulashi who wrote (5810)10/17/2001 2:46:34 PM
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>I think we need to face the fact that a democracy in Saudi Arabia at this point in history would not produce the results some of us seem to be expecting.
>Quite the opposite, I think.

See Algeria. Democratic elections put an Islamic Fundamentalist party into power. The army objected, staged a coup. Terrorism and guerilla war ever since. I believe dead and wounded are in the thousands.
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