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To: SilentZ who wrote (223459)	3/11/2005 3:04:02 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573198

>So what do you believe? That the ME will always suffer under the yoke of tyrant leaders? Well, tyranny has a longer and more illustrious history than democracy... Democracy is a relatively new phenomenon for most countries of the world. Few of the former soviet republics had a history of independence, let alone democracy. For an example, Czechoslovakia, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonian etc were independent only briefly between WWI and WWII. Prior to WWI and after WW II they were under the domain of one foreign power or another. However, under the soviets, that did not stop them from wanting democracy........their expression of that want was usually brief and tentative. For an example, there was the Prague Spring in the 1960s. Then, I can remember in the early 80s people lighting candles and putting them in the windows in support of the Polish workers who were daring to defy their soviet bosses with a strike. I see the recent Lebanese demonstrations somewhat analogous to the Polish workers. And I believe the Lebanese are closer to democracy than many of the other ME countries. I am not saying they are close but closer. I just think its being way too pessimistic to suggest that democracy is not a possibility for some ME countries in the foreseeable future. So long as democracy exists, people will seek it out and find it. ted