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Politics : Idea Of The Day

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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (45909)4/14/2004 7:58:56 PM
From: Raymond Duray  Read Replies (1) of 50167
 
Dear Iqbal,

Before lying about which regimes I support in this world, it would be only polite for you to ask me for my list, instead of insanely assigning crazy suggestions to me.

When you come back to your senses, let me tell you that my favorite nation states today include the following, in no particular order and all for the same reason. Because they put the welfare of their people first, and they have kept the poison of oligarchy and corporatism at bay.

Excellent governments/systems include

Canada, France, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Costa Rica, Iceland, Switzerland... among others.

As you will notice, once you quit lathering at the mouth, I do not regard any system/government in the Middle East or in Eurasia to be worthy of consideration in the top tier.

In the second tier, I will include Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines (during good administrations), perhaps Venezuela, Brazil and Ecuador. (Again, many more could be mentioned here.)

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I have zero interest in the sort of government that someone like Moqtada al-Sadr would want to impose on Iraq. His religious fundamentalism is to me just as reprehensible as Ahmed Chalabi's proposed kleptocracy. Surely it is time to set up a UN Protectorate, force George Bush out of Iraq and out of office, and return the planet to some degree of sanity.

And the worst government in the world today? Clearly it is the U.S. Bush Regime.
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