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To: QwikSand who wrote (53706)	4/14/2003 8:12:33 PM
From: cheryl williamson	Read Replies (2) of 64865

For the record, the discussion is about wars of liberation and the pretext used by the country doing the liberating. S.A. has been used in this discussion in a contrarian fashion. As a case -in-point, Saudi Arabia is so backward, I doubt they would know what to do with anything resembling a free-market economy or a liberal western-style democracy. To the royals, any concept of separation of chuch and state is unthinkable. To the bedouins roaming around in the desert, they wouldn't even know what it means. Believe me, once their oil is gone, that country is toast. There are theories about what to do with a democratically-elected country that winds up kicking you, the advocate for democracy, out of the country altogether. Basically, the argument states that everyone is better off with an unfriendly democracy than with a friendly dictatorship. The US has had its share of problems dealing with formerly friendly dictators. A short list includes: Iraq, Afghanistan Haiti Indonesia Panama Nicaragua El Salvador Guatamala In each case we wound up having to intervene, either militarily or diplomatically (or both) to get the despot removed from power. And it was always done for our own benefit.

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