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Thread #55062   Message #854403
Posted By: Amos
28-Dec-02 - 12:25 AM
Thread Name: BS: Are we at the doorstep of World War III?
Subject: RE: BS: Are we at the doorstep of World War III?
Regime change begins at home, eh? Possibly. If it happens it will be done by popular vote, or at least a representative system, Boss og's Supreme Team notwithstanding.

The basic conflisct between representation and autocracy has been in play for a lot longer than thirty years, and even though it is going through some very bumpy permutations, it is still the same fight.

There were less than fifteen democracies in the nations of the world world 85 years ago at the start of WW I. There are something over 100 today.

That's the message we should be sending all through the Middle East, if you ask me. Something is prevailing, and it isn't dictatorship.


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