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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: tejek who wrote (164643)3/18/2003 8:57:59 AM
From: hmaly  Read Replies (2) of 1574076
 
Ted RE...You might want to ratchet down your expectations. Taking out one of the neighborhood bullies doesn't guaranteed a new neighborhood, and Bush doesn't have staying power to insure the kind of the things that will bring meaningful change.

Whether GW gets defeated in 2004 will hardly mean defeat for the push for democracy in the middle east. There is no way, whoever is president in 2004, will abandon the democracy push. In 1917, there were 11 democratized nations. Today, there are over 80 democratized, and 30 some partially democratized, like Russia, for a total close to 120. The arab world is the last major segment that has no democracies yet. And the arab world is starving, underemployed and in chaos. I believe the arab world is ready to change to a better proven system. What kind of democracy and what kind of laws is yet to be determined, but I have no doubt democracy can prosper in Iraq if given the chance.
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