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Originally Posted by bradclark1
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Originally Posted by waste gate
OK, but what do you have against democracy? Just b/c it hasn't been tried in the ME doesn't mean it can't happen, albiet not without some pain. But all the first democracies were painfull. Peoples have to throw off the past, failed order, in order to move into a realm of self governance, liberty and self determination.
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I don't have anything against democracy. I just don't think the make-up of the middle east allows for it. As long as there are 16th century minded religious fanatics willing to kill anyone who doesn't think like them there can never be a democracy. The only survivable style of goverment for the middle east is authoritarian or dictatoral. Anything else and you have an Iraq of today.
Lebanon is a democracy or should I say a confessionalism style of goverment. Look where that is at. The terrorist army is stronger and better equipped then the goverments army. There is a state within a state. The place is heading for another open civil war as we speak. The real pisser is that Israel has done more to ferment it with their joke assualt or whatever it was supposed to be because they totally underestimated the enemy (which seems to be a common occurance in today's world).
I could go on but I have to read the "Farm" book to my two year old granddaughter  |
I totally agree with bradclark1's statement regarding the middle east; when you have a hot bed of religion and fanaticism mixed together, there is no room for democracy.