all i can think of when i see this thread is Eminem's "Bagpipes from Baghdad"
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 6:01 PM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Gruss Gott <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> In other words, our policy and methodology to create democracies from >> dictatorships has worked broadly in western countries but has yet to succeed >> in Middle Eastern ones. > > Just to be pedantic, Japan was a hereditary Monarchy, not a dictatorship. > > As for Iraq, I think it would be a very far stretch of the imagination > to claim that Democracy has taken hold there. Could it in the future? > Perhaps. I'm not overly bullish on the prospects for democracy in Arab > world in the next couple decades because I think that oil represents > too big a economic factor in most of the countries and oil is likely > to be a very volatile commodity. Establishing democratic institutions > and democratic habits is difficult and I'm not sure how well it will > work in volatile economic conditions. > > Cheers, > Judah > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:334939 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
