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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: The Philosopher who wrote (79662)	12/22/2003 12:20:28 PM
From: average joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Don't be fearful Christopher, western style democracy will never be imposed on that region. This is as conceited a notion as trying to introduce family planning to Africa or trying to make cannibals into catholics.

To: The Philosopher who wrote (79662)	12/22/2003 5:14:21 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

Here's something I posted elsewhere. Seems appropriate here, too. <<Last week when I was in a local kabob joint, I read as I typically do from one of the free newspapers that clutter ethnic eateries. This one was the Muslim Times, the only one there in English. There was an interesting column written by someone whose writing style indicated a native-born, educated American. He was talking about the significance of time in that part of the world as opposed to ours, how irrelevant clocks and calendars are there, how days begin when the sun sets, not on some fixed schedule, how different that is from cultures where it's important that the trains run on time. In the column he was advocating eschewing the Western sense of time despite the obvious pitfalls of that in terms of growth and development. >> There are lots of cultural differences, not just the human rights stuff. A lot to work through.