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Originally posted by bilmore
They just voted for their leaders. I think they now live in a democracy. If the system gets highjacked, we'll talk about it again.
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I understand why the Bush Administration publicly sets the bar this low. What I don't understand is why so many conservatives profess to agree. And what scares me is the notion that the Bushies really think this.
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The Syrian society has, apparently, been full of comment in the last few weeks. Iran is still on the verge of clamoring. I think SA is going to have to start moving this way fairly quickly. There's a tremendous amount of inertia out there. This was, as you say, step one. But it WAS step one. That counts for a lot.
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I gather that you spend a large portion of your life talking to someone who thinks that Arabs aren't interested in democracy -- couldn't care less about it. Because then you come here, and say this stuff as if it's relevant to something, anything that anyone is saying here.
