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To: neolib who wrote (123082)	7/2/2005 10:17:28 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793958

Kenya and South Africa were certainly, ahem, problematic as "democracies". I don't know the others, but ever two-bit dictator calls himself a President. I would like to see examples of countries where the President got voted out of office and left peacefully. Didn't happen for a looong while in Kenya, in SA the democracy was whites only. And you call Zimbabwe a democracy! but I don't think Africans make really good communists they're not such hot democrats either, judging from results. BTW, I'd throw in such countries as Jamaica & India, but their struggles occurred prior to modern terrorism, so perhaps you don't consider that valid Absolutely I'd count them, why do you say they were before modern terrorism? Modern terrorism came in with explosives. Jamaica I don't know, India is a case in point of democratically inclined leaders trying to avoid terrorism. As for the Geneva Conventions & saboteurs, go argue with the conventions, that's what they say. They weren't intended as a suicide pact, but as a reciprocal treaty between nations, which each would keep in hopes that the other would too. That obviously doesn't apply either in the GWOT.