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To: carranza2 who wrote (43469)	9/14/2002 12:57:33 AM
From: D. Long	Read Replies (2) of 281500

Some cultures and some countries are simply not ready for Western-style democracy, and perhaps may never be. It is fatuous, in my view, to impose democracy where it is not wanted and where it may be a failure. I simply don't agree with this claim, carranza. If ever there was a culture and nation that seemed to be not ready and incapable of Western style democracy, it would have been Japan. A nation which had been a military dictorship with a divine, infallible Emperor for centuries, in a society of inflexible castes unquestionably subordinated to a warrior elite. There had never been democracy in Japan, and there most certainly had never been anything close to a "popular will." Unless that was demonstrated in the will of the Emperor or Shogun. And yet today, we would not doubt Japan's dedication to republicanism. The Arabs, on the other hand, share a great deal of our history and traditions and myths. Derek

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