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Originally posted by bilmore
I think it's an issue mostly because it's been used to deflect popular anger from the ME despots. If you subjugate your people and trash their lives, it's good to give them something external to hate. Israel has been a good target for that, and the constant whine from Arafat has gone far in helping the rest of the ME keep the lid on. But, once (if?) the Palestinians start becoming a merged society, a lot of that goes away.
As to, do we really want democracy in those tyrant states, I think we do, and it's gonna be hell for a while once they get there. It's like working an industrial pressure vessel, and realizing that the relief is stuck closed - you know you have to knock if free, and there's gonna be a dangerous explosive mess when you do that, but you need to do it, because otherwise the pressure's only going up.
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A couple things: this stuff about Palestinian's becoming a "merged" society, who wants them to merge with whom? A few Palestinians may cling to the notion that Israel should become a Democratic secular state, but I don't think the Jewish Israelis want a merger - and the demographic shift that would go with it.
And the explosion -- are you suggesting that it's no big deal if this new democratic Iraq decides to take the offensive against Israel? Or are you thinking the explosion may blow somewhere else?
