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To: Original Mad Dog who wrote (6206)3/22/2003 3:29:50 PM
From: Lazarus_Long  Read Replies (2) of 7689
 
I've got a problem with that piece. More than one, actually. To say it is simplistic is like saying a 100-megaton bomb is an explosive.

The world is covered with dictatorships. Probably 1/2 to 3/4, maybe more, of gov'ts are really dictatorships. Most of these claim to be democracies but are fake democracies, not working democracies. If one man or one party always wins an "election", it's a dictatorship.

So are we going to wipe out all of these? Can we? And if so, could we then establish democracies in all these different countries?

And the isolationist in me just asked: "Are we the world's cop? Who made us so? And why would we want such a bloody, thankless, expensive job?"
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