-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 29 January 2003 12:45 pm, Franki wrote: [...] > believe it or not.. often a dictator is better economically then a > democracy (at least initially).. simply because the leader need not worry > about public opinion.. but that certainly doesn't make it right...
Yah, one example is Pakistan. Musharrif is essentially a dictator but the alternative is likely MUCH worse (good likelihood that Moslem extremists would gain a considerable level of power). Not good - it just produces another dangerous regime to worry about and cause problems for its neighbors. Until conditions for average Pakistani's improve to the point of squelching any desire to vote for religious extremists, I would have to say that the current nondemocratic situation is best overall (for the Pakistani's themselves, though they may not think so right now, and the world). How many citizens in Iran and Afghanistan are or were truly happy with the fundamentalist governments they have or had? I'd wager that the women are particularly less than pleased. Such situations invariably favor the poorly educated as such systems give them power that they wouldn't have. - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+OBSr1i/6R1B/Yh0RArdwAKCf8DZTtfWPxz60zbjZBJD5v/241ACfYSYf T4Q1JLb0fIPzMrWFER32ET8= =1Fmc -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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