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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: FaultLine who wrote (92998)4/12/2003 6:28:42 PM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
If I understand the analogy, Ken, there is one flaw in it and that is it takes systems as enclosed entities. In international politics systems interact with one another thus producing results which don't emerge from endogenous forces. The exogenous is maybe not king but a big, big player.

Thus, the importance of TV for the Iraqi future, for the importance of travel to see how other countries operate, the importance that they have a sympathetic view of the US, etc.

I don't expect single state democracy in Iraq, incidentally. I expect some sort of federation with varying degrees of something we might call democracy within each federation. Looks to me as if the Kurds are further ahead on this score but they could easily skip to the Afghan model.
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