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Originally posted by Spanky
Saddam Husseins government was even worse than Marcos's in the Phillipines. It was a complete Kleptocracy. When you have an economy like that no amount of aid is going to change anything. I should ad that the Baathists were Arab nationalists and socialists. So when the took over Syria and Iraq they instituted socialism.
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OK, I'm trying to follow. Right-wing dictatorships show good economic growth and eventually turn into democracies, except when they are kleptocracies and don't, except that some kleptocracies (like the Phillipines) do evolve into democracies. Communist regimes do not show good economic growth and do not turn into democracies, except that some liberalize their economic policy and do experience rapid growth (like China and Vietnam). These countries are going to turn into democracies soon, notwithstanding whatever their leaders might try to do about it.
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