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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: average joe who wrote (43912)	1/2/2006 1:37:58 AM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

And if you honestly think your government has clean hands, walks on water and otherwise is on some sort of pedestal you will need to be sent to a place of incarceration for education and training. That's the CHINESE method, AJ. tsig's method. In democratic countries the gov't at least leaves you alone in your lunacy. Their are undoubtedly some Canadians who have very poor opinions of the Canadian gov't, but that doesn't make them right. It is a working democracy and shows every sign of being quite content with that. With good reason. I was in Turkey about 2 months before Christmas. People there are more prosperous than in Mexico (which I have also visted extensively). The Turks have a good opinion of the US and Americans. I never got into the subject of their opinion of Canada with them, but I imagine a good number of them would like to live there. (Your weather might give them second thoughts though. :-) If you want to change governments in foreign countries you need to appeal to the common people that inhabit them. Sometimes that will work; sometimes not. It didn't work with Hitler. It probably did have some effect on the USSR. (Plus Mr. Reagan playing the Soviet gov't like a fiddle. :-) OTOH, I know of NO gov't that is perfect or that has made no mistakes. Your mother country and our close ally the UK are included in that. They made innumerable mistakes as a colonial power in particular. Nevertheless, the number and percentage of former British colonies that remain democracies is outstanding. You appear not to like US policy in Iraq. What would YOU do to avoid disaster there?