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Originally posted by bilmore
they have exercised their new democracy in a rather enthusiatic and heartwarming way
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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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this may well be the first step in bringing an entire region into a more democratic, less despotic era
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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.
