To: zonder who wrote (2539 ) 1/22/2003 7:20:02 AM From: Hawkmoon Read Replies (1) | Respond to Underlying the democratic imperialist ideal is the faulty premise that the peoples of the region are culturally homogeneous, that their middle classes are strong and politically assertive, that their citizens are mindful of the duties owed to one another and that a social and institutional basis exists for political democracy. This vision reflects the fundamental naivety that socially and institutionally they are like westerners and that, like westerners, they share a common conception of citizen, society, civic duty and state. Someone is going to shape those young minds Zonder.. If it isn't the west, it will be the Islamic militants. Because young minds are looking to "hitch their wagons" to the system that offers them the greatest opportunity (for money and/or power)
