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To: michael97123 who wrote (118651)	6/7/2005 1:53:57 PM
From: cnyndwllr	Respond to of 793913

Given what you and i knew beforehand, we might have expected robust democracy in iraq before afganistan. Sorry, I misunderstood your question. I thought we were talking about the effect of the two conflicts on the war on terror. If you are talking about the success of the two actions in terms of creating "robust democracy," I have two responses. First, neither one has created, nor will in the foreseeable future create, a robust democracy. Neither country has the culture, the institutions, the tolerance and the respect for the rights of minorities to form the basis for a workable democracy. Secondly, I don't really care whether they're democratic or not. The people of most nations get what they deserve and it's up to them to change it if they don't like it. It's not up to us to become modern day missionary workers and save them from themselves, especially not with guns, bombs and funerals. That's even more true since such tactics don't work. Let them have their theocracies, their civil wars and their upheavals. They must find their own path just as our nation did. Who knows, they might find a better one. Ed