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To: steve dietrich who wrote (181342)	2/7/2006 3:02:52 PM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

I wouldn't go that far but i do understand what you are saying. There are cases where you can go direct to western democracy but they are few and far between. Democracy is an end goal for all societies imho but it is has to be over time and sometimes that time is excruciatingly long. Meet me half way Steve--this is wilsonian policy that came back post WW2 with FDR being a bit naive with the russians, then it reared its ugly head during LBJ and now with the neocons. Its opposite is equally as bad, probably worse, and thats isolationsism. Will meet you in the middle at the point realism intersects the line. Then you get Marshall plans, interventions where they have a fair chance of success, containment, deterrence and war if necessary as a last resort. Iran scares me to death because the students became nationalists first on nukes, not democrats where one would have expected them to land. So the iranian reformer becomes a nut job but a nut job who pacifies the anti-mullah students. This is hard stuff.