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To: tejek who wrote (384300)5/15/2008 12:36:53 AM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1578537
 
"Its rather amazing......it took people screaming at the top of their lungs for years before Americans woke up"

It shouldn't be amazing. Democracies tend to only reach a consensus in an acute crisis. Which is why a dictatorship can steal the march. So far, at least, the dictatorships have been fairly small countries. Even the USSR, at its peak, was fairly small compared to the US and the EU.