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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
They don't live in a "democracy" yet, unless you're taking extreme liberties with that word. Maybe it will all work out in the end, but let's not get ahead of ourselves.
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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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Oddly enough, you don't see many other Arabs clamoring for their country to look more like Iraq. Which suggests that if this was the first step, the journey may be a thousand miles long, and it may be Maoists (or their functional equivalent) who end up telling the story.
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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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