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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: D. Long who wrote (9105)11/7/2001 12:05:09 AM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
<Given the success rate of other former colonial states with democracy where there is no established democratic tradition, do we really want to give up our favorite dictators in the Middle East?>

Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, Philippines have all been successful countries where democracy was introduced by colonial or foreign military powers [I think that's true]. Taiwan had no history of democracy but seems to do okay. India's democracy has been successful in a social sense, though not in an economic sense because the population votes for submission to state socialism.

Why pick a few bad eggs such as Rwanda?

Defeat the Taleban [and Osama's bunch]. Install the United Nations as the boss. Introduce a UN-designed constitution. Hold elections for locals to run the place, perhaps as two separate self-governing provinces under permanent UN rule. Call tenders for an oil/gas pipeline or two or three to be paid for by tolls.

Start shipping oil.

All will be hunky dory and we can all live happily ever after.

Mqurice

PS: The UN will need a bit of reconstitution itself to enable such a project. But now that the USA is claiming to be anti-terrorist and Russia, China, Britain, France and others seem to be like-minded, that should be an easy sell. Palestine [George W's in favour of a state] could be the second UN protectorate within the new constitution.

It's all very simple. Then everyone can buy a CDMA cyberspace phone and the world will be happily harmonious.
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