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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry

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To: Brumar89 who wrote (57619)	12/21/2004 12:51:44 AM
From: Richnorth	Read Replies (2) of 81568

I regret I don't have the time to go into details and provide links for this and that. But suffice it to say that the Asian and Latin American countries that "adopted" democracy or had it rammed down their throats experienced all sorts of problems they never had before. As I recall it, one Harvard law professor has written a book on this subject. (By the way, Indonesia tried adopting democracy in the 1950s and 1960s. Result: shit-loads of problems and the then Indonesian president, Sukarno, was forced to create "Guided Democracy" which also failed miserably. Today, the democracy you see in Indonesia is not real democracy. It has seemed to me for a very long time that America imposes herself upon vulnerable countries whenever and wherever she sees that political and/or economic advantage may be gained. (By the way, Colin Powell in Reagan's time wrote a report in which he recommended that American troops should not get involved in any country where there will be no return of political advantage for America.) To be sure, America has been using "democratization" as an excuse to exert her hegemony over vulnerable states. As far as that self-styled born-again-Christian Bush is concerned, he most probably has "Christianization" of Moslem lands in mind, too. Democratization is all too often just a facade of noble and good intentions to cover up real long-term motivations --- hegemony over others and exploitation of their natural resources. Lord Acton once wrote something to the effect that all power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. This describes America today rather well, now that there is no more countervailing force against US hegemony worldwide from the once mighty Soviets. .

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