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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (76966)	2/24/2003 1:42:11 AM
From: greenspirit	Respond to of 281500

res-Democracy has nothing to do with making a nation peaceful. There are just too many counter-examples, of democratically elected leaders who are more than willing, really eager, to use force to achieve national goals. Of which the current U.S. leader is a prime example. I could list 50 others, from memory. Give me five examples in which a democratic nation used force against another democratic nation to achieve national goals? Democracies have gone to war against dictatorships, because those dictatorships represent a clear and present danger to peace. Swedish Wars. Too numerous to list. Democracy changed them. algonet.se Switzerland has had democracy for a long time. If Kings or dictatorships ran Switzerland or Sweden their pacifistic tendencies would be quite different. You’re looking at the symptom and not the root cause. The root cause of peace is democracy combined with free market capitalism. Pacifism under some perceived utopian model doesn't really exist. There is no perfect model in the use of force against tyrants who seek power at all costs.